Welcome Back
“We’re back! Well ‘back’ since April, when we reopened, and everything was going great, really great, you were all coming to visit and having coffee, gifting people things, we like gifts, it was all getting sunnier and the summer was beautiful, warm and you sat outside with iced drinks and collected Peacock’s Ice cream, ate our Bampots* a delight, and then August came and we were happy, settled, in our lane, until the flash flood in August which scuppered our vibes, frankly.
It’s been a stretch since then dealing with Scottish water and the insurance and the shall-be-not-be-named factors for, it now turns out, almost all of Nithsdale Road, and waiting for William the builder to turn up—he never came—organising the repairs and painting, we still love the Bam green, thought that’s twice this year we’ve been covered in it. But once more we’re happy, so happy to have the downstairs open again! It's full of new homewares, lots of vintage clothes, bric-a-brac, prints and too much to list! It’s a delight to have you all there once more.
*Our Bampots are a milky collaboration between us and Peacock’s Ice cream that takes the tasting notes of our current hopper coffee and churns them into take-away ice cream tub. A couple of flavours so far were Death Before Decaf based on Dear Green’s Colombian Caturra, which had a malt biscuit ice cream, with chocolate orange ganache and A Lucky Find based on Faodail’s Serra Do Cabral, with chocolate ice cream, hazelnuts and cherry. All delicious.
So, some new things! We’ve some radiant new scarves and other winter things from Miss Pom Pom, including their hot collaboration with Tatty Devine; some plush and bold scented candles from Good Candles, who also aim to donate %10 of every sale to charity this year. Their scents are idiosyncratic and stylish with the sullen nostalgia of ‘School Dinners’ based on school puddings and the tuck shop spends, to the more personal ‘Fred’s Garden’ dedicated to the owner’s Grandfathers—one of which was yes, you got it, ‘Fred’. They were all keen gardeners and so this one aims for the late summer garden and its assortment of drifting fragrances. One more to boot and someone we’ve stocked for a couple of months is the inimitable Molly Hankinson, some of you may have noticed the long stretch of her prints plastered on the walls along Eglinton Street besides the O2 Academy earlier this year. We stock a range of her stunning portrait prints that edge between vivid, intimate documentary and detailed architectural drawing.
Lastly, as October has faded, one half of Bam has left for a big adventure. Elaine, Duncan and their son Teddy are off through Spain, Portugal, Croatia, Italy and France and aim to return some time next year, if they do come back! You can follow their adventures on Instagram @ _tedontour_
Tommy has also stepped out from behind the counter and is wintering, ?, in Berlin after being subjected to the Stranger Things soundtrack played on repeat a few too many times.
We as ever hope to see you,
Bam
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