We're surrounded by eggs, ducks and chickens!! How is a young tart to keep her poise, look elegant and smell "oh so sweet" when the shop is like a menagerie??!! Luckily the eggs and tin ducks are sailing out in huge numbers and we should be able to relax a bit in a week or so.....
Those little chickens are so cute - but how annoying as they "cheep-cheep-cheep" all day and because John is deaf he doesn't notice how much they disturb us poor tarts (and Cheap just isn't a word in our repertoire!). Still, I suppose it IS better than enduring those Bunny Hoppers we had in last week, they spent all night jumping all over the place - thoroughly un-nerving for a young tart who needs her beauty sleep!!
Now - guess what we saw in the shop today!!!! No, not one of those - a genuine Fendi Spy Bag!! It was "Sparkling Lemon" who spotted it first, she's a sharp one - and while "Star Fruit & Orange" was hotly disputing who was fruitiest with "Mango Blossom" the bag bobbed by. What excitement, "Cottage Breeze" almost jumped out of her tray!! We're waiting for the first Mui Mui now, but who knows if we'll catch a glimpse of one - though we do know someone who has a real yearning for one and won't be satisfied until her Chloe Paddington has a Drawer Companion!
Jean had a day off, then she came back with armloads of lovely flowers - but they didn't smell nice like we all do!! Customers keep taking them away in bags and tissue so they must be for sale - we have so much competition here, but it keeps us an our toes. We had a chance to shine and preen and show just how delectably gorgeous we are today as John was busy with his camera taking pictures - but the flashes made even my poor eyes spotty, and "Midsummer Night" was totally dazzled by them. She looked particularly black as thunder afterwards, especially when she heard the photos were for John's pet spider - we think so anyway because Hannah said they were for putting on his Web....
It's not all glamour and hot, sweet temptation in these trays you know - poor "Creme Brule" had a choking fit after almost having an eye poked out this afternoon when some little terror in a tartan skirt tried to poke a finger through her crust to have a taste of the Brule!! What is the younger generation coming to - we are kept pretty much in line beneath our parent Housewarmer Jars and wouldn't dream of misbehaving (well - not while the shop is open to customers anyway!).
I do think that John and Jean should charge an entrance fee, it doesn't seem fair that people can just come in and smell our fragrance, and then just walk out without taking one of us home. And I don't know why John always laughs when he does sell a handful of us to a man - he just mentions "not many men can just walk home with a tart or two and get away with it like this" - I just can't see the joke myself?
Well, there - I got all negative, not like me - now I've gone and crinkled my petticoat! I must calm down and be more like our long lost cousin "Cucumber and Cantaloupe", she was a cool one - just like "Willow Breeze" is now (a breath of fresh air if ever we smelt one).
We had a giggle at teatime because we could see two little boys outside the window with weird biscuits held in grubby little hands - it reminded "Clean Cotton" of the Slim Lady's visit last Friday. John had mentioned Mother's Day to her and she said she was expecting to nibble some cakes made by a Cub Scout - John laughed and asked if they would be grey ones! We didn't know what he meant until we saw these two with their biscuits - what a mess!!!! We hope she survives, she's so very neat to be eating crumbly grey cakes!
Well, I really must go now, we've a bit of a spread to attend as one of the Pot Pourri Bags has wobbled onto the floor and burst. We're going to dance on her fragrant bits and then put them all in one of the lovely white Baths that Jean is so fond of. I will be back - I've still to tell you about the Tin Fairies and Kate's wild Show!! Take care......
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