Made my week

Categories: signs-of-the-times

Tags: weekend, North Circular, veneer, pests

Date: 04 May 2009 12:27:00

I forgot to blog a little amusing event that happened on our way back from the church weekend away (actually I forgot to blog about the church weekend at all, it was a bit of a damp squib for me as I missed half the sessions due to having to lie down and rest my back).
Now whenever we travelled east along the North Circular in olden days, we used to look out for Shadbolt's veneer factory, where they would use those white slot-in letters that old notice boards used, to announce the Veneer of the Week; European Curly Crown Maple or whatever it might be (actually they never changed it more often than once a month).
Sadly, a couple of years ago Shadbolts was demolished to make way for a CostCo, so we lost our journey marker. Imagine my delight when, a bit further west, as we drove back from Kent, I spotted a pest control firm with a shopfront where they announced - wait for it - Pest of the Week. It was brown rat, in case you wanted to know.