Thursday, May 31, 2007

Seriously Weird Experience............

Today we went to a small town which was at the centre of the civil war here . Many half timbered houses had plaques , King Charles stayed at one glorious house, Prince Rupert was also there .. I wandered off and found myself in a little maze of shops , many dating from the 17 th century . I was enjoying the mostly untouched architecture when I saw a little ' haberdashers ' , between 2 larger shops . The inside was something out of Dickens , and there, right there was the exact wool I needed for my pal .... I couldn't believe it , it is botany wool ( I haven't seen that for years ) , weighed in ounces ! , and individually wrapped in cellophane , this was a shop from my childhood , even the smell of pure wool ( mmmmm ) , I bought the wool (put into an old fashioned brown paper bag ) and left . Ever since , I feel that I have been in a time warp and I hope that I can find the shop again , it didn't even take credit cards !!!!

2 comments:

Knitted Bookworm said...

Sounds to me as if you might not find it if you go back...you know, maybe it wasn't REALLY there at all! What a neat experience...especially since you found just the yarn you were looking for.

Lynn

Michelle said...

That sounds totally cool. I am very curious as to where this store is!