Instant Laughter From Grimm In England

I was flipping though my emails trying to avoid the urgent and eliminate the unneccesary, when I came across a PR piece about place in England, Rotherham, which does not usualy get noted for things which are cheerful. However ...

I read on, at first slightly puzzled. I was soon in hysterics. The funniest thing I have seen in years. You can buy spiders leg soap. The luck of the Irish.

See it for yourself.

They are a charity promoting literacy and running writing events for children and schools.I found it quite hard to get past all the fantasy and nonsense to find out what they were, who they were, and what they were doing and for whom. It appears that they originally did research into improving literacy and had a huge grant, but now rely on sales and donations.

My favourite picture is of the staircase with the steps transformed into book titles like books laying on their sides in a stack. Brilliant.

You can visit their shop, buy goods and sign up for courses.

Shop
You can buy:

• Children's tee-shirt (called Elf Size) in black with the words in white, about fourteen pounds sterling and adult size (called Wizard size):
•  IT'S GRIMM UP NORTH 
• ONCE UPON A TIME
• I BELIEVE IN HAPPY ENDINGS
• FEE FI FO FUM
• Black tote bags with the same messages as the tee-shirts.
• Badges with the words Once upon a time cost one pound each; a set of five, all the word badges and one with a pattern, cost four pounds.

They also sell a tea hamper including the Philip Pullman version of Grimm's Fairy Tales. I read one of the versions of Grimm's Fairy Tales (long ago out of copyright) as well as the GoodReads reviews. Some reviewers liked Pullman's commentary after each story. Others commented on the fact or regretted that the stories were not illustrated.

2 Doncaster Gate, Rotherham, S65 1DJ.
It is closed on Sunday and Monday, open 9-1 on Thursday, 9-4 Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday.

Websites

https://shop.grimmandco.co.uk/collections/curses

https://www.facebook.com/GrimmAndCo/


See also tripadvisor which has glowing revues.

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Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Please share links to your favourite posts.