Yorkshire Treasures #2

Barnitts is a hardware shop in York. It is an institution. Over the years it has spread to occupy acres of space, but in such a haphazard way that if you enter by one door, it is virtually impossible to exit the same way. It is a maze, that has everything in there somewhere. The opposite of B&Q, and well worth supporting. Rowan and I were in there on Saturday [whilst Danielle was at the Mount School http://www.mount.n-yorks.sch.uk/ where she is a member of the committee] "where are the reading glasses?" I asked, knowing that they had some somewhere ["hardware" is loosely interpreted in Barnitts]. "At the front of the shop" came the reply, "Where is that ?" I needed help, it is like saying "on the side of the pentagon": the shop has no front as far as I can work out after 7 years of trying. Anyway we found them in the end.