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The Surbiton Festival
Hoi Polloi has had a shop in Surbiton for nearly 20 years. For everyone of those years (and we understand for many years before that) there has been a joyous Saturday in late September when there has been a Grand Parade and street festival in Victoria Road. On a sunny day, and it is remarkable […]
Made in the Hood – Local Suppliers
Recently we sent out requests through modern means, including social media, and more traditional means, such as posters on our shop windows and word of mouth requesting local designers craftspeople and artists to contact us if they wanted an outlet to stock and sell their lovingly crafted creations. So far fifteen local designers in […]
Surbiton Food Festival – 2014
Today we got a Facebook invitation for a party on 30th June for all the people who participated in the recent Surbiton Food Festival. Therefore it is probably a good time to reflect on the festival itself and Hoi Polloi’s participation in it News of its imminent arrival was heralded by Surbiton’s yarn bombers http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/11190795.A_colourful_reminder__Yarn_bombs_herald_first_day_of_the_Surbiton_Food_Festival_2014/ […]
Claygate Spring Festival
For much of February, March and early April, I led the Claygate Lifestyle Experience Team (Simon Baile of ExCellar, Hannah Young of Ceramica and me) in the organisation of the inaugural Claygate Spring Festival. This event was inspired by The Claygate Network the local group on Linkedin and supported by the Claygate Village Association. […]
Remembrance Sunday – Claygate – 10 November 2013
Mary, Alice and me planned to do some sorting in our warehouse yesterday, in preparation for the arrival of Christmas stock. However it was such a beautiful morning we popped down to the old village in Claygate and attended the remembrance ceremony at the War Memorial. As usual, lots of villagers were out in force paying […]
Furniture Delivery Day
Recently we had furniture delivery day. This is when one of our major suppliers delivers a lot of furniture. It is always a stressful but exciting day. We cross our fingers so that: 1) Everything we ordered arrives 2) It arrives safely and undamaged 3) We like what we bought 4) It isn’t raining Everything […]
Social Plugins
Had a social media “day” today Set up a Google + page and added all our social media pages to the main page of our web site and all the product pages too! I believe that is called plug ins. Took me quite a long time to do but was successful after quite a few […]
Our First Blog Post
Welcome to our Blog. This is the third birthday of our online shop. Our Claygate Shop is nearly 4 years old. Our Surbiton shop will be 18 in January. Our daughter, Alice, was 10 on Sunday. Our son, Erol will be 31 on Thurday. Therefore lots of happy birthday’s and a belated one to Prince […]