Porthleven's re-usable shopping bag is going round the world!!
Jona Jones and myself, (Julia Schofield) originally designed the shopping bag to try to reduce this little Cornish Fishing Villages dependence on plastic. We hoped people would use it for shopping, picnics and going to the beach. Now we know people are sending them to friends and relatives round the world as well.
We heard a story the other day of a visitor who took a bag back home to Ireland. When she took it into work a colleagure exclaimed "That's where I was born!" Already we know one's been to the Grand Prix, and another's been sighted near Sydney Opera House. Four have gone to Canada to Cornish Expats.
The image on the bag shows the famous Bickford Smith Institute, known in the village as The Town Clock. (People mistake the landmark for a church though it was built philanthropicallly as a Reading Room). Bay View Terrace is in the background with Budgie's boat sailing out of the harbour (- though we don't think Budgie's recognised it).
It's Lifeboat Day in Porthleven this Sunday. I think we may need a second order! Julia.
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