A fairy story from
Baconsdozen
Ten years ago a man called Mr B started selling tools from this
shop in the town of Lowstuff. Soon,Mr B also sold clothing and supplies
to fishing boats in the town of Lowstuff and other places but then along
came some baddies from a place called EU and made the fishermen smash all
their boats up.A big chief called Morley from a place called Par-liar-ment
promised Mr B and everyone else who had lost money,lots of grants and help
but although lots of people did get money,Mr B got bugger all.
Mr B still carried on running his shop,but then Woefully Dismal
Council dug the roads up for two and a half years and scared all the locals
and visitors away from the town with traffic jams. Mr B decided to go more
into mail order and the internet.Whilst making sure other shops had loading
bays to use the bigwigs at Woefully Dismal Council next decided it would
be a good idea to stop any delivery vans and customers still making it
past the jams from stopping anywhere near Mr B's shop by painting big yellow
lines on the path one dark night. A few days later they built a bus stop
for imaginary people to get on and off imaginary buses further down the
road but told Mr B that he would have to get real lorries and vans up his
little narrow back passage for his deliveries and collections .What they
didn't tell Mr B was they'd they stuck a concrete post in the middle of
it to make it even more narrow but before you could say "whatever next"
a fairy godmother came along with a big lorry and knocked it over . Mr
B tried to get help,some people called Kownsillors promised to help but
only at a quarter to election time not afterwards,and there was someone
called an Hombudzeman,but they turned out to have no teeth.Mr B even dreamt
a Blizzard came and put the wind up the Council but knew that would only
ever be a dream.Mr B can't even get permission from Woefully Dismal Council
to change the use of the shop because they say the Magic Sea is liable
to flood him.It's called the Magic Sea because although they say it will
flood him and his shop,they say it won't flood the places either side.
Perhaps the Magic Sea is punishing Mr B for selling stuff to
the fishermen so they could catch its fish
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Baconsdozen shop in Lowestoft.
We are now concentrating on the internet side of the business,selling
new whitworth/BSF,af and metric tools.We export so called obsolete imperial
tools all over the world mainly for classic car and motorcycle enthusiasts.We
sell some tools still made in England,from factories that have been making
spanners and wrenches for many years.We source tools from other countries
but only sell tools that are fit for professional use,we also auction tools
at sites like Ebay.If you need tools for an older vehicle,made in the days
before planned obsolescence and plastic wood,give us a call.
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The view from my bedroom
window,one of the main reasons for staying here.
Looking over the trawl dock and the entrance
to Oulton Broad,the buildings and yachts comprise the yacht club, in the
background is the North Sea.There is periodic talk of redevelopment,with
waterside apartments and posh marinas just like you can find in a hundred
other towns and cities.Personally I'd like to see it turned into a working
fishing museum.