Nautical gift shop on Poole Quay in Dorset
We have lots of new items for 2023 and seeing some interesting nautical products being designed. We will be adding a few hundred items over the next several weeks. Last year we had a couple of importers leave the room and we were fortunate enough to clear their showrooms so in our retail bricks and
Passing by quicker than we all thought – we really didn’t know we had so many seashells! We keep some stock in a stable block and in the deepest corners found some great specimens. Please e mail us if you want to see some pictures of bargain seashells which we have in good numbers. The
We are pleased to say that our core suppliers are still doing a great job regarding deliveries. Overnight we have heard that we have a shipment arriving Monday morning. Another supplier kindly helped us with a large order which was missing a couple of key items – they have pulled out all the stop and
I can see Lisa in the gym taking part in an online keep fit meeting. The dogs are out running around the field with the cats. A wood pigeon has just called out from a birch tree – another sound and indicator of Spring. We have two family birthdays today and I will not be
Things moving at a rapid pace. We took a delivery from DPD today to be told by the driver that they may close in a week as all businesses are temporarily closing and there is not enough work. This is true of some of our importers/wholesalers who are closing down their warehouses due to lack
We had to make just the one essential journey to the shop today as we were expecting our ice cream suppliers to change one of the fridges. This of course was cancelled yesterday but we needed to move all the ice cream back in to our storage freezer. We really have a super ice cream
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
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