I did not get a chance to step into Bongie’s Bubble & Enterprise, nor the shop of Good Hope. So, unfortunately, their wares remain a mystery. Eating Land was slightly more explicit but, whilst I was curious about the lion of the north, I piked out of stepping across the threshold to determine its exact offerings. We were visiting this business centre to talk to some young people running locals businesses, and to find out how they were being successful in such a tough economic climate. The chats went well though the presence of a short pale woman with equally pale hair was the source of much amusement and she attracted a lot of attention. This has been the case while I have been moving around the irrigation scheme that is the subject of my research. And I am finding this a strange experience, as I am used to a fair degree of invisibility when I’m in Australia. The youngest children in particular have seldom if ever seen a woman of my pale hue: they are either hysterical with giggles, bemused, uncertain, or even prepared to fend off this strange being. Hence, I did not venture into many of the shops. I don’t know how the shop names work for the locals but I like their style, and maybe we could do with more shops fronts that are brazen and confident with their assertion that “quality is their game”.
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Being in the minority is a novel experience me thinks, xxx
I wish that you had gone in to Bongie’s Bubble & Enterprise. I would love to know what Bongie is selling!
Indeed it is. Of course, most times people are very friendly but I’m ready to swop my cloak of privilege for one of invisibility for a while. There was one very small child who wanted to seriously take me on and defend his mum from this strange being in his mum’s shop. Quite funny. xkx
Yes, I wish I had been able to find out more. We were under a pretty tight schedule and there was enough kerfuffle with Ms Whitie wandering around. If I don’t pluck up the courage to go back and step across the threshold, I’ll do my best to find out what’s in store … as they say. xkx
These shops look like those old shops in China back to 1980s. your photoes took me back to those good old times when i was a kid. They were not like big huge nowaday style supetmarket.but we were so happy to enter there..just got a very nice 10 cents ice stick in summer..and now we have everything in big supermarket..but those childhood happiness seems gone..we were not rich but so much happier 😀😀😃
Now you’re taking me back to childhood memories thinking about an ice stick. 🙂
Everyone knows that blondes have more fun or maybe that should be that blondes are funny 😏😏
Ha ha. You definitely fit into the blond description. But maybe if I has been more blond and less gray/white then the little boy might have been less scared!