How things change. Yesterday after making some bread I looked round for the bread knife. Gone, vanished, I searched high and low but no bread knife. Even felt guilty that I might be blamed for losing it. Then my daughter revealed at meal time in the evening that it had fallen behind the cupboard and we needed a new one.
So a conversation ensues as to how to get another one. The internet ever ready to help produced many different prices. I lamented for a kitchen shop here in Tod, nothing quite beats kitchenware in all its wondrous creativity but it has closed down.
Anyway I reckon £20 on a bread knife is a good price, Lakeland priciest goes up to £125 but today I shall go to the market and an old fashioned ironmongers just in case he has one ;) My granddaughter was all for buying one of the net but we are killing off small shops in our towns if we don't use their services.
Also before I get to the market I shall get some cash from the post office, two things that are fast disappearing as well. Post Offices will be the last bastion to get cash from, our PO is run efficiently by an Asian family, thank goodness some people are wizards at running our services dear Government! As for cash, because I doubt Dawsons will have one of those cute, flash your card and you've paid, contraptions either, it is fast disappearing as well.
I miss such shops so much, here they are no longer seen.
ReplyDeleteYes sadly the world is changing Yael, the market stalls were full this morning but mostly cheap stuff.
DeleteA couple of hardware shops are hanging on in 2 big villages locally and Diss has a good Kitchen shop so things are still OK around here but in bigger towns they are long gone.
ReplyDelete£125 for a bread knife!! Good grief - I'd be wanting a whole kitchen for that!
Lakeland is expensive Sue but they started at £20 up to £124. Ikea is also good for decent prices but little local shops are slowly drifting away sadly as the owners become old and of course the rents go up. Dawson came up trumps though with a £7.50 knife, which he probably had had for years;)
DeleteHardware shops are few and far between these days, I used to like to just wander around in them and usually found something I needed.
ReplyDeleteWell it was such a jumble in that shop but I found a bread knife £7.50, he put it down though and I could not find it amongst the stuff.
DeleteI tried in vain to buy a small paring knife online, but fell foul of the over 18 rule. There are no shops that sell them in my tiny isolated town, and Morrisons don't sell them online, so I tried independent online shops. I though I'd cracked it, but I had to do a sort of I'm a real adult over 18 test, but failed this three times ( had those hard to decipher captcha letters and numbers) and got banned from the site lol. Finally got one last week when I was physically in a Morrisons. Life is difficult without a decent bread knife.
ReplyDeleteThere does seem to be a lot of knives on the internet, slightly weird but entirely justified is the over 18 rule of course.
DeleteIn Leyburn we have a fantastic hardward shop called House and Home - I bet they would have a bread knife - they seem to have everything but the kitchen sink.
ReplyDeleteThey still hold on in little backwater towns Pat ;) But you are lucky to have one.
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