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Cleaning kits 25% off in the Winter Sale, get spring ready!

If you are like me then you are wistfully thinking of spring blooms, warm breezes, morning sun and gleaming surfaces!

I do genuinely love spring time & spring clean, I think since reading about Mole spring cleaning in Wind In The Willows as a child. When there is a new bright spring sun piercing your windows and resting on your dusty wintered shelves for the first time, a good clean and then a spring walk is good for the soul I think! 

Now is the time to stock up your kits in readiness for your big clean with 25% OFF for a short time only in our Winter Sale.

Here is a little snippet to help you imagine the spring days that will soon be upon us!

"The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an aching back and weary arms. Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. It was small wonder, then, that he suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said, "Bother!" and "O blow!" and also "Hang spring-cleaning!" and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat. Something up above was calling him imperiously, and he made for the steep little tunnel which answered in his case to the gravelled carriage-drive owned by animals whose residences are nearer to the sun and air. So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged, and then he scrooged again and scrabbled and scratched and scraped, working busily with his little paws and muttering to himself, "Up we go! Up we go!" till at last, pop! his snout came out into the sunlight and he found himself rolling in the warm grass of a great meadow."

Kenneth Grahame, Chapter One, The River Bank. 

Happy New Year! Katy x

 

Katy Boys

Katy Boys

Katy is a rural girl at heart. She loves long walks, home cooking, paddling in rivers, warm fires and socks and stomping in leaves with her children. After studying ‘drawing stuff’ at university in Bath, Katy spent 10 years selling wares and managing folk at Habitat in Bath. Welcoming children into her world prompted her to return to drawing things, people and places from home. This led her to us at Blake & Bull and the rest is history. She draws our stuff, provides cuddles for the office dog, and is here to chat to you lovely lot.

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