H is for Hope Store…

I normally turn my head away when I walk past the Hope Store because its windows are full of lovely things that I want but don’t need and it’s just better not to look. But in the interest of getting a blip…
For many years this used to be a shoe shop and was the destination shop for buying school shoes. It even had an x-ray machine to check the fit of the shoe so all the kids wanted to hop on and see their bones. My mum was a nurse and well aware that subjecting children to x-rays was not a clever idea so I think I only managed to persuade her once or twice that I really had to admire my bone structure.