Pink is not the new cream

So an interesting couple of weeks in Odiham High Street.......

When we refurbished the shop in May the outside was looking a little scruffy so we painted it a light candy pink - not realising that Odiham was in a conservation area and as such the colours of the shops all need to be first approved by Hart Council. We have had a meeting with the conservation officer at Hart Council, who has stated that the pink clashes with the outside brickwork and therefore it needs to be changed to cream or cream with a hint of pink (so in fact cream)

Since the pink front has existed we have had a lot more visitors to the shop, lots of pictures have been taken by tourists and in general people love it! However, Hart council are still in insisting the colour is changed to cream, even though it looks great pink and really adds to the personality of the High Street. We really don't like making too much of a fuss about these things but we felt so strongly about keeping the colour that we asked our customers what they thought, if our customers didn't like it then fine, we will change it in a flash - over 600 people have now signed to confirm they love the colour which includes local people,businesses and members of Odiham Parish Council..

Molly has had a number of interviews with the BBC including radio 5 Live (all very early in the morning!) to discuss this situation, our next meeting with Hart Council is next week so fingers crossed!!

We have recently ordered the most fabulous hand made chocolates, they should be coming in towards the end of September and then we will start gearing up for Halloween.

I was having a rare day off on Monday and went into Winchester which is the most beautiful City, there were a couple of sweet shops there and obviously we had to go in and have a nose. I am happy to report that not one was as nice as Swirleeze - not that I'm biased or anything!!! It was a bit depressing, even though it was a warm day and I had a T-Shirt on, there was a lot of shops that had all their Christmas stuff out - it just gets earlier and earlier doesn't it every year?

That's it for a couple of weeks - will keep you updated on mission Pink!