People of Nottingham will be aware of Lee Rosy, the independently run café in Hockley, a rather cool and hipster-ish part of Nottingham City Centre. It is where the artistic, creative folk go for coffee, tea, and homemade cakes. The trouble is that it is always really busy.

I love a nice Christmas effort

Around the corner from Lee Rosy is another independent café called Hartley's. A little while ago I came up with an advertising slogan for Hartley's, "For when Lee Rosy is full". Hartley's sells a range of hot drinks, from ordinary tea and coffee right up to the fancy coffees and croissants, but also sell bacon sandwiches and such. It doesn't really know if it wants to be a basic café, or a hip hang out, and falls somewhere in between. Mandi and I went in there again today, because Lee Rosy was full.  The strange thing was that Hartley's soon filled up, I wondered out loud, (on Twitter) where people were supposed to go now. I told Mandi that we should open a cafe in Hockley called 'Third Resort', marketed as the place to go when Lee Rosy is full, and Hartley's is full. If both were full, then people would have to come to us.

What I did later was visit the newly opened mushy pea stall in Victoria Centre. Sadly, it wasn't very busy for a Saturday afternoon. I had met up with my dad to come here, and congratulated the boss on his stall. Next time, I imagine the queues will snake around the entire Victoria Centre, after all, everyone moaned when the pea stall closed down before!