Paperchase

Lovely shop with lots of items to choose from… They stock lots of stationary from fancy pens to birthday cards!

Oh Paperchase. How I love your quirky cards and diaries so beautiful that it seems a crime to actually write in them. Your overpriced pens patterned with flamingoes and wrapping paper that makes you want to paper your walls with it. Your treasure trove of stationery supplies that’s all just so much prettier than smiths or rymans. Your neverending supply of random last minute gifts — owl-​patterned tissues, neon photo frames, false taches and sparkly phone covers anyone?
You have just taken away the one thing I relied on you most for though, that made you different from all the other craft shops in the area, and that was having single pieces of card available in a spectrum of 30+ colours and in every size from placecard up to A3 with matching envelopes. Until last week these used to cover the back wall and make it so easy to pop over from my office (practically across the road) and pick up a base card piece plus envelope to make a last minute card for a loved one. Now I have to spend a tenner on a multi-​coloured bulk pack of card (of which I won’t use many colours) if I want to do the same thing. Plus a bulk pack of envelopes. Annoying dot com.
Luckily, I still love you even without that mega useful aspect and in spite of how much you just charged me for a set of 12 tiny wooden craft pegs with heart shapes on them. Though I’d avoid the lunchtime surge if poss — I quite like escaping for an afternoon browse myself. Also watch out if you’re very sensitive to the passage of time — they stock Vday paraphernalia from new year and xmas starts in September!