On the way back from collecting Grace this afternoon we called in at the brand new 'Garden Park' Shopping experience in the East of the City. Its built on an area of land that sits next to the Cities garbage dump. It's not a place for routine grocery shopping but more a once in a while visit.
The main focus is the obligatory Garden Center. This time the quite expensive up market Van Hague garden center. Then there's a Hobbycraft store. It almost rivals Canada's Michael's stores in size. At the opposite end of the parade of shops is a Coffee shop called Adronicas. In between there are a line up of smaller fairly up market stores.
Along the front of the stores a wide area of land is laid out to pleasant gardens with seating and olive trees. Despite coming from Italy the little trees must be tough as they have suvived the winter we've just had and are promising a bumper crop of olives.
The Cotswold Camping and Mountain shop, Past Times, Cotton Traders and Le Creuset are just some of the stores. There's also a book store a toy store and an aquatic store plus about five unoccupied stores.
Grace found some modelling clay from Hobbycraft. I couldn't find the American micro glitter though, but they've lots of Card making materials.
I was intrigued by this unusual shaped wooden hut complete with glazed windows and stout door and thought it must be a 'rich kids' Wendy House!
But no. It's a posh barbecue shed, complete with inside barbecue and extraction chimney. How decadent. Especially in a recession.
Himself smooched around the Aquatic shop and found a free booklet called Water Gardening!
For most of the visit I sat in the gardens enjoying the sunshine. I've already been here three times since it opened so I didn't feel the need to tramp all around every store today.
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