And so it begins
So it does, so it does, a new thing to blab about our new thing….which is really an old thing, getting fresh legs and new energy to bring it through the birth canal, and into the light of day.
our new website www.toogoodforkids.com is growing and changing and being groomed for it’s awakening, but has been a long time in the womb - longer than an elephant even. Enough of the baby metaphors though - I nearly started a diatribe on stillbirth…..
I don’t know the rules for blogging, haven’t blogged before and have only once or twice stumbled over them whilst searching, so I’m gonna have to feel my way along, carefully minding my language, and trying not to insult too many people.
We’ll try and tell the story of our new website, which is an extension of our shop, which in turn has evolved from a Paragliding School and gradually filled up with toys, clothes, and stuff we like having around. To be honest, it’s probably not to be recommended as a business strategy, to stock only what you would buy yourself, but it does have it’s advantages. No more Christmas shopping, or for birthdays which I inevitably forget - our large family has at least one birthday for every month of the year.
We started stocking greetings cards too, a couple of years ago, simply because we were fed up choosing from the dreadful selection of granny oriented stuff at the stationers next door. They’ve since closed up, so I guess the rest of their customers shared our view. Or should I say the majority, cos we do get occasional customers who refuse to buy a blank - leave your own message - card, wanting instead “Happy 51st Wedding Anniversary Great Aunt” or “Congratulations on the Birth of your 3rd Child - a Girl at last!” printed on the outside. They mutter their way around our selection, reading them all carefully, in fervent hope of finding JUST the right message. Engaging in dialogue is always a mistake, so we cower behind the counter until they give up with “och ye havenae got what ah want” and rock the door on it’s hinges as they huffily depart.
We’ll explain more about our card selection later, as it’s taken an unusual direction recently, but it needs a whole session I reckon.
So, it continues, our new website - not our 1st - and certainly not our last, but it is the flagship - which will represent our real shop, and it’s diversity of products. We also hope it will represent our personalities to some degree and allow us to give free reign to our imaginations.
So it continues