I moved into the downstairs office at Pilgrim House a year ago, but the windows still showed transfers for the Just Fairtrade shop. They've been in their new premises in St Martin's Square for nigh on two years now, but folk can be slow to catch on. Apparently, people were seeing the transfers on our windows, calling in and finding nothing there, so they went off again in the belief that the Just shop had gone out of business.
Last week, someone from the Just shop phoned and said they'd come and remove the transfers, cutting their last remaining tie with Pilgrim House. We'd been quoted some ridiculous price by professional cleaners to get these transfers off without causing damage to the glass. So I was glad to hear that someone from Just Fairtrade was coming to take care of it.
This morning Roger, a member of their board who volunteers at the Just shop on a Tuesday (hence his nickname among staff there, "Tuesday Roger") arrived around 1000, with hairdryer and scraper. You can't see much of Roger in the picture, but that's him up the ladder, blasting and scraping away at the transfers. I finished the job later, getting the last sign of them off with white spirit. Very nice and clean it all is too now; you'd never guess these things had been there. Thanks for lending your elbow grease Roger.
One of the reasons I was keen for us to get the use of this downstairs office was so that we could use the street-level presence in such a prominent position to promote our existence there - and to showcase our work of course. Hopefully, we can get on that now and get some sort of display in place.
Yet another case of "Watch this space!" (quite literally).
