26 Lordship Lane [next door to White Stuff] (Lounged)

[Angusvanfrehley]

I'd rather have a feast of 'long pig' with Dr Mengele!!!!!!

[SeanMacGabhann]

In a word - no. I used to go there to check it out and it was a good example of why traditional pubs are dying out. It might have been a laugh if you were known but otherwise..?

And what's an honest laugh anyway when it's at home? Am I being dishonest by enjoying a pint in 72, EDT or Bishop?

middle-class tat? yep, it mostly is. So? Compared to other kind of tat? Or empty shops?

4 wheeled to death? It isn't always the middle classes driving the vans and big cars which I am just as likely to be run over by

[Bellenden Belle]

Lovely - I really like Oliver Bonas and I have always found their stuff to be far more interesting/ useful/ tasteful than the likes of Ed and Celestial. I get so bored of all that girly tat - Oliver Bonas is all about nice clean lines and clever design.

It's a little bit like Mrs Robinson - but without the hefty price tags. And it really isn't that large a chain.

And the clothes they do are rather lovely and rather good value.

[Mark]

2 hours and 25 minutes for "Clapham", "middle class" and "chain" to appear in this thread, I was actually expecting it to be sooner but I guess "she's" not around today. I was also waiting for "3 wheeled buggy" to appear but there, I've just said it so a full house.

I quite like Oliver Bonas stuff, nice mirrors from what I can recall from visiting there other shops.

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[Keef]

I never actually had any problem with The Forresters, it was a bit rough, but I have got a few fond memories. Also, really don't like the way Dee was just shot down/dismissed... And you wonder why people can feel bitter sometimes.

Aaaanyway, changing the subject.

[SeanMacGabhann]

true Dee is new - but the argument is as old as the hills and without any other frame of reference.... it was a very dismissive post in itself. I'm sure Dee is big enough to handle it and we can kiss and make up

err.... right Dee?

[Angusvanfrehley]

Cheers Keef!

Sorry guys, I just sometimes miss ED when it was 'our' secret! Things do have to move on........having said that...

Keef may well see you lot for music at the Plough Friday night - excellent idea and will support!

[Administrator]

Please stay on topic

[SeanMacGabhann]

put that way it makes more sense -

shame I'll miss Friday night now and the opportunity to have a pint and an honest laugh ;-)

oops now we are off-topic and I can hear the administrator's footsteps

Re: the shop itself. It seems fine for what it does but it isn't offering anything new to the area from what I can see (re-checks the website to see if they sell breadmakers...)

[Ant]

I'm not sure it's what the area really needs. Or rather, I doubt the area needs quite so many gift shops - but whether this one or another already established one gets the economic, free-market heave-ho remains to be seen.

I agree with ct that another clothes shop for men would be a welcome addition. ED's got some (but not much) OK-ish stuff. The blokes' bit in the White Stuff is pretty awful. Still, there's always Sainsbo's.

[RosieH]

Fenton Walsh on Bellenden Road has some good men's stuff (not a huge quantity, but more interesting than White Stuff).

Bonas is a bit boring and identikit, but I have realised that that is clearly what we all want or else these bloody shops wouldn't keep opening, so I will not moan and continue to buy my clothes outside the village.

[MrBen]

Great. Crucial must have items at Oliver Bonas:

- A floral hole punch (like you, I have always wanted one of those)

- A floral garden tool set ( Total floral boll0cks )

- A womens tool kit (as opposed to a mans tool kit) Pink boll0cks )

- A rotating angel tea light candle holder ( Angel boll0cks )

What a load of bollocks.

MrBen is not impressed and would much rather a proper men's shoe shop. A hat shop. Or a trendy jeweller.

[RosieH]

I'm contemplating a merkin shop. I could do pink / floral if that's what the kids want

[Ant]

You'll be selling Americans?

Given that many of us think ED is becoming overbegiftshopped, which one(s) do people think might be first to go belly up should the economy head south?

I reckon Moo Too would struggle against the local competition.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Moo Too looks the weakest to me as well. Say what you will about ED, Mrs Robinson et al - people buy stuff there. I've seen it. But I've never seen it in MT

[macroban]

> Say what you will about ED, Mrs Robinson et al - people buy stuff there.

That was 2007.

[Jeremy]

It's now 2008.

People are still buying stuff there.

[Asset]

Hey MrBen, my son bought my mum a floral gardening set for christmas, for the indoor garden obviously, and she loves it.

[2degreesfrommadness]

RosieH Wrote:

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> I'm contemplating a merkin shop. I could do pink

> / floral if that's what the kids want

Can I place an order please ........... turquoise in small

thanks

[RosieH]

lol - I'll set to work

is "indoor garden" a euphemism?

[Asset]

pot plants

[MadWorld74]

Oliver Bonas.....very appropraite for ED.

There's quite a few of them in the City, and of course Clapham. I am disappointed that there's to be one in LL. What really makes them that different from Celestial, ED and Mrs Rob?.....don't get me wrong I have bought a few bits from them before but that's because I was bored on my lunch hour and had nothing better to do than waste my cash.

Theyre a chain in my eyes, just the WStuff. Boring

[*Bob*]

dee Wrote:

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> Sorry guys, I just sometimes miss ED when it was

> 'our' secret! Things do have to move

> on........having said that...

Does anyone else pretend to miss ED when it was a bit shit?

[MadWorld74]

*Bob*

From what I can gather ED very shit in the past?!

[*Bob*]

How can you say that, MadWorld?

It was their secret. But now Oliver Bonas is on its way - and the dream has died.