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Once upon a Shop
I opened my first fruit and veg shop in Spitalfields in 1805...
At least that is how it feels to me because my 1790's tiny London townhouse plus shop started selling Kent cabbages and Irish potatoes during the Napoleonic Wars and the year of the Battle of Trafalgar. While Nelson was gunning the French, we were selling onions the size of cannonballs.
My shop is right opposite Spitalfields Market, now full of chic shops and funky stalls, but formally the fruit and veg market for London, just as Covent Garden was the flower market, Smithfield the meat market, and Billingsgate, the fishmarket.
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Summer
Summertime make me happy. Rain, sun, wind, what does it matter, as long as the geraniums are on the back step and the peas and beans are growing in the garden?
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Summertime makes me happy
Summertime makes me happy. Rain, sun, wind, what does it matter, as long as the geraniums are on the back step and the peas and beans are growing in the garden?
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