Mushroom Man

A fellow shopper in the hardware store. I love the smell of a real hardware store, not the modern day chain store B&Q variety, but a real old fashioned everything store - and we still have one on the high street in Wells - carries me back to my youth, when I would go into the store on my way back from school - to look at the airfix models, and occasionally to spend my saved up pocket money - a sort of leather, wax, hemp rope, tar, brown paper sort of smell. Very exciting. Now I think I am really very like this man - an eccentric middle aged cyclist getting excited by tins of polish.