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It must have been at least ten years since I’ve last been to Lancaster. I’m glad we went today to have a look at the Lancaster Festa Italia. The city centre was full of stalls, offering Italian food, drinks and more.
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On our walk through the different streets, just after the super car section where all the Ferraris were on display, we got lucky found a little stationery store that just opened a week ago: analog shop
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The shop is run by Melanie and Sherry. They were very friendly and also insisted that every customer who enters should sanitise their hands.
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Next to the exotic smelling hand sanitiser was even was a box with face masks, presumable for customers who would like one, but didn’t bring their own. It’s great to see that this is one of a small number of shops that cares for the safety of their customers [1]Compared to other countries with much lower infection rates there isn’t much hand sanitising and face mask wearing going on here in the UK anymore.
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On display was a great selection of the kind of stationery you don’t usually find in the UK high street chains: lots of Kaweco, Lamy, Rhodia (always the nice stuff from their range of course) but also smaller brands, like ANDSONS, a leather manufacturer from Rehau in Franconia.
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I walked away with a new £36 ANDSONS pen roll made from felt and leather.
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The shop keepers told me that in another week the selection of stationery on offer will have grown even further.
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I’m not sure when I’ll get to go to Lancaster again, but I’ll make sure I’ll visit analog shop again.
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↑1 | Compared to other countries with much lower infection rates there isn’t much hand sanitising and face mask wearing going on here in the UK anymore |
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great to see some ansalog entrepreneurship. Hope they thrive.
I hope so, too.
A great looking shop.