END OF AN ERA

Yesterday was my last official day working for Max and Pippa at their company Shop Inc Limited. None of us know when I started - except we found my hand writing in a stock book once that is now over 7 years old. Other than Max and Pippa, I was the longest serving member of staff there. I can't even begin to tell you about all the things that went on in that time. Some of it was hideous, some of it was so frustrating beyond belief, sometimes we resigned or sacked each other in fits of tears but most of the time it is all looked back on with fits of uncontrollable laughter!!! I still find myself snorting back a laughing on the bus now at things that have happened - like the time Max made me try on a super small mesh Playboy thong over my jeans in Birmingham years ago [don't ask for more details...], Pippa's hangover on the way to the airport for a gig in Germany [ask her for more details!!] an stupid nicknames we have for each other that I never get sick of. [Well I don't really like "Ebola" but again... don't ask.] Because the business has such a small team running it Max and Pippa are like family to me now. I'm sure I will be hanging around and this post will definitely not be the last you'll hear from me.

So what exactly happened on my last day? Pippa and I met in the office on Brewer Street [Louise you still have your box of emergency Tampax hidden under the shelf if you ever need it] and she brough coffee's from Flat White and cakes from Maison Bertaux.


Also fun to do: just listen to the audio on it's own and imagine what Pippa might be doing...

Then we did a bit of work until Max turned up with some very very VERY good news [but top secret] and a present for me from Ladurée - some Anna Sui macaroons!

CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!!
And after Pippa and I had scoffed three each, we were feeling like we had taken HOW WE IMAGINE IT FEELS LIKE on drugs so for our own well being I shared the macaroons round with the other girls before Pippa and I scoffed the lot and ended up in ER.

Lisa in The World According To...

Cheryl with a cute new Eley Kishimoto blouse for SS07 behind her!

And Hannah at Shop At Maison B.
Anyway - a super sweet way to finish up at Shop.

In other news:

The other day I was around at the VICE magazine offices and I found where they keep their famous gross jar

I didn't dare take a look. There were a couple of boys around and you know how defensive and protective they can be over their secret weird things. Besides, at Shop At Maison B we have our own bigger and better gross jar - THE DRAINS - which I am sure you have read us whinging about before. They are gonna get fixed tomorrow with a CCTV thing on a string and a huge pressure water jet!! I wish I could be there to check it all out. What if they find bones!! I'd have to call Gill Grissom!! Well we actually call this guy

He is from M. T. Drains [geddit?] and he has been the dude poking round our passages pulling out all sorts of lovely stinky stuff. He really stinks but he is always smiling.

And I'm off to Australia at the end of April to visit my family and while I'm there I will visit Katrina in Melbourne. I haven't been to Melbourne in years. She will be able to show me her new shop which I'm really looking forward to. The other thing I'm looking forward to is my nephew Sam. He was really into Australian Idol when I was there last and this is what we made together.


xx Emma