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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

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.

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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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.

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?

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!

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...)

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.

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.

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 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

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

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?

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