Spuds and Coal

There's not too many of these wee independent shops around any more, due to the proliferation of supermarkets and franchises. Plus, I think, a lot of villages around the North Coast have an increasingly unhealthy percentage of second-home-owners, which means that they lie unoccupied for a large part of the year.  Anyway, Glass's is in Bushmills and as you can see, has sacks of potatoes on one side and bags of coal on t'other and sure what else would you need to keep you warm and fed?

Bushmills, 2021. Via the 'Blad, HP5+ and 60mm lens

I was sorely tempted by the spuds as I reckon they'd be a damn sight better than the ones the supermarkets flog to us.  I'd probably go for the smaller of the two sizes as we haven't a large family and it's really only the odd weekend we might have half a dozen around the table for Sunday lunch.  But we do like our spuds and we go through a surprising amount each week.

I love the awning on Glass's, which looks like it hasn't changed in a few decades.  Plus the fact they put their wares (or some of them at least) out front.  Good marketing that, for any passing trade there might be...even, I was going to say, the tourists as they drive through en route to the Distillery or the Causeway.   But then again, when I think about it, I doubt too many tourists would be after spuds or coal...