Instead of a White Stuff in ED, I'd like to see...

[spymum]

OmiGod Sister Ray's! There's a blast from the past; I haven't been there in years! (Actually, now that I think about it, the number of years is a tad depressing.)

spymum

(Blog: Posh Mum)

[Ant]

Don't let's get started on that, Spymum, or we'll all be crying into our beer come Friday night.

[MadWorld74]

Well it doesn't have to be Sister Rays but that's the idea. It could be a Fopp, you know them Spymum? Nice place but very very West End. They wouldn't come to ED. If they did I'd be broke all the time and have no where to put all those cd's and DVD's I buy!! You sound very cool SM, it's not all mum's that can say they know the black and sinister Sister Ray's!

[Huguenot]

Cripes ?30k a week someone earlier said a shop was making?

I suppose the EDD could, but then it's two (3?) units not one.

I can't see Celestial or even Moo Too managing that (it'd be 40 x ?100 items a day, and I'm not sure they have that many items in the shop?): it's entirely possible that these or Chener books is on a long term lower lease?

Mind you, I suspect one of the lady's is one here, maybe she could tell us?? ;-)

[SimonM]

>>No it most certainly does not! It's alright if you sing in a choir and want sheet music for Verdi?s Requiem, and definately not alright if you have a musical instrument (that's not a violin, a triangle or a recorder!).:D

[Keef]

No, it's always been a very classical shop, never has and never will cater for a variety of tastes! Still, have fond memories of my mum taking me there to buy my first music stand :-)

[spymum]

Thanks MadWorld74 - No, I'm not cool, I'm a geek (and a mum!). And I am ashamed to say that I don't know Fopps (all vestiges of cool evaporate like so much air from a balloon!). :'(

I used to hang around Chinatown and Soho with my much cooler friends (mostly in the weirdy book section of Virgin, and in Forbidden Planet looking at expensive models of the Alien monster - how uncool is that?!)

A cool record shop with loads of rare groove vinyl would surely work on the cheaper part of LL! Just 'girl' it up a bit with some books (or some pants!) and I'm there!

And Ant, I was thinking of swinging by briefly on Friday (with my collection money) - if I drink enough beer I might forget how long ago it was!

spymum

(Blog: Posh Mum)

[chuff]

I'd quite like another shoe shop, something in between the practical clarks stuff at barnets and expensive impracticals at stella b. girly, pretty shoes that are affordable to working mum's like me.

a trashy nail bar

a proper cake shop/pattiserie type shop

creche type thing with indoor bouncy stuff for rainy days

and somewhere to buy bedding, towels etc

[Ant]

Allegedly (and please, take this with quite a pinch of salt as I've never been there myself and can't remember who I heard this from or how rich they are)... erm, where was I? Ah yes: allegedly Stella B does have affordable shoes as well as the expensive ones.

[macroban]

There's a music shop at 50 Grove Vale.

[chuff]

yes they do have some cheaper shoes, I take that comment back. For some reason though I don't actually like a lot of the more reasonably priced stock, only the very expensive varieties out of my reach. Ideas above my station - I know!

I would just like to have something a bit funky and affordable. No slur or stella b or barnets.

maybe I am just a shoesave sort of girl at heart

[Ant]

Expensive taste: easy to acquire but difficult to maintain. :/

[chuff]

not expensive in everything, I quite like cheap tat too :)