Nautical gift shop on Poole Quay in Dorset
While we continue to trade online we took the decision to temporarily close our bricks and mortar shop on Poole Quay yesterday evening. The shop has been open for 20 years now and we have probably never taken a day off from March 1st to September 30th in these 2 decades. It will mean we have more time to
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Busy busy today listing metal bronze sculptures and we have waited a while before adding these. There seemed to be a lot of disparity in quality and price for these items but have found some heavy iron composite with a great style and look to them. These have all been crafted with just a resin coat
We like these, took a trip to Portsmouth this morning and have picked 3 from a range of a dozen that are our favourites! Lisa began chuckling at this one and I liked “I drink to make other people interesting”. “Annoying the cook will result in smaller portions” is probably in third place.
Some big boats along Poole Quay today and the Cape Verde makes a great prop for these beautiful Australian triton seashells ( syrinx auranus ). Probably our most eclectic shell and we are getting these right up as big as 50 cms now. Preparations for the nautical wedding season are upon us and post Christmas enquiries coming
Well we can’t admit to having been particularly active on our blog in 2017. We don’t have a team working on social media suggesting nautical gifts for men with beards. We do have an occasional stab at Facebook and have been known to put a picture up on Instagram but 2018 is the year we
Our best selling yachts are probably the J Class Yachts, but there is usually a story surrounding purchases of the Canadian Bluenoses as noted today. Our buyer asked if the Bluenose could be gift wrapped and also if we could include the description of origin on a card in the packaging. In fact, we liked
We thought we would get this in before Trading Standards visit. Just took a telephone order for seahorse wall art from a lovely chap, a commercial fisherman from Hastings. Before bidding farewell, he mentioned that he liked our silver resin sea life items, particularly the silver resin plaice, but it wasn’t a plaice. Nope, that’s a turbot
Our brass mini tankards are great sellers as a Christmas present year in year out. Practical, beautifully crafted, in a presentation box and useful! We often wonder what is the most popular tipple going in to these. I’ve just put that thought out to everyone once again, and the consensus is………….”for display”. We think the
We heard the Apprentice was showing Poole Quay last night as the location for one of the selling tasks. We thought we had better watch to see what all the fuss was about. We had heard that the production team had spent a lot of the day in the Poole Arms next door to us,