Robi, garden centre sells (apart from garden type things)
Fashion clothes, handbags, scarves, etc., Lovely gifts of all types, crockery, cutlery, perfume, cards of all sorts, books, furniture, some foods and has the best restaurant/tea rooms around. Amazing home cooked food and just wonderful cakes. It is only 1/2 mile away, and quite honestly, apart from Morrisons I get most of my stuff from there. They have just phoned to say my cardigan has arrived. It is lovely. Very long with just two buttons that do it up at the top, a shawl type colour with a scarf attachment - very tres chic!! The clothes are very different, not the sort you see in the chain stores and also very reasonable priced.
Yes a Biddie runs it with her husband and sons and they have built it up over the past 30 years into a wonderful store. The owners are always working hard in there is well and are always friendly and helpful. People come from miles around!!
Neti, I was wondering too whether Swedie had a residents association. It doesn't seem right somehow what she is having to go through. Awful, just as winter is approaching and the time you need your home to be at it's cosiest. I lived like that when we rebuilt our house (single handed) in fact it was far worse because at times we had no loo, no stairs, no floors and no ceilings and just camped. But we were only in our early 30's then and much tougher. When I think about me digging out floors and barrowing out rubble and helping Mr LL to put up ceilings at 2.00am it makes me shudder!!