Hi All from Wishing Well Cards

Hi and welcome to my first attempt at writing a Blog.  This is or is intended to be a bit of an information sheet about the goings on at the shop we have set up called Wishing Well Cards and Gifts Ltd and our experiences in getting it up and running.  Perhaps when I have got the hang of this there might even be some pictures.
We are in the town of North Shields up in the North of England.  When I was a bairn we lived in the county of Northumberland but some bureaucrats decided to change the country around  and created the ridiculous name of Tyne and Wear.  For me and many others we are Northumbrians and always will be.North Shields is historically known for its links to fishing and ship building/ repair.  Both industries have been in decline for some time now along with another prominent industry in the area - coal mining, which has all but disappeared.  We can still claim to have a ship repair industry although much depleted and the area has used its skills in engineering to diversify into the offshore industry and  other areas.Still North Shields struggles on and many a happy day can be spent taking a stroll down to the fish quay for some of the best fish and chips anywhere and along to Tynemouth Priory. 

The walk is full of history and cannot fail to impress visitors to the area, with its river and sea views. If I get into this proper I will try to provide more information on the town and area I have lived in all my life.For now though, back to Wishing Well Cards.  We started the business mainly I think due to uncertainty.  There is nothing worse is there? in not knowing if you have job security or not.  Kath and I (I'm Rob by the way), decided that if there was to be some uncertainty it may as well come from our actions rather than someone else. So in May last year (2010) we started looking into what we needed to do.  By August Kath had left her job at a well known card shop to run Wishing Well Cards and Gifts Ltd