Long Live Casa Bella!
I know I have vision for the store but the question is, how am I going to get there and how much is it going to cost me? Well, no more than £2,000 which means doing a lot the work myself, oh and drafting in good friends and bribing them with lots of cups and […]

When does a shop become a dining room?
Okay, so the store closed its doors (or door) in June 2010 and the question was, how did I feel about that? Well, relieved! It meant no early starts for the family; my sister up at 05:00 to prepare the paper rounds for the delivery boys, my brother in law who’d have to come back […]
The Village Store is dead, now what?
When I moved into my new home six years ago, I inherited a grocery store. By inherited, I mean the place was attached to my home! So, if you’d asked me (or anybody I know) a few years earlier if I would be interested in playing postmaster and shopkeeping, you would have been laughed at. Despite this, […]
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