The end of a long road
Friends, gamers, dodo lovers lend me your beaks! Today is the day, after many happy years, that I, your plump yet lovable CEO, have the sad duty to officially announce that our little shop in the Market Hall is to shut its grill for the last time at the end of December. As many of you know we have been struggling on for several years now against the tide of the Internet, Kickstarter, non-games related retail chains and the pressures of a failing economy, to supply you games and unsolicited chat. Oh the chat! And when you are a store of our small, yet beautifully marked, stature there is only so long you can swim against the tide before it’s time to admit enough is enough and leave the stage.
Palin: ‘Stage left pursued by a bear!”
Thank you Palin! But unlike Antigonus in this winter’s tale we will go on for a little while after the closure, just as an internet shop, that may participate in the odd show, just like the old days, though for how long we as yet do not know.
As for we dodos we will continue to ply our trade in the cut and thrust of commerce just this time at the helm of Flightless Wonder, I’ve no doubt you’ve seen our, soon to be expanded, range of greetings cards to which we plan to add t-shirts and enamel badges, possibly even games, to in the coming years.
All that’s left for me to do now is to thank you all for your support and friendship over the many years and to tell you that our last trading day will be December 28th a day when anyone who wants to can bring a game down, The Market Hall Café has said that as they will be closed so we can use some of their tables to game, and see us off in the style befitting a games shop.
Again many thanks, keep those beaks up and look out for our December Palin photo story and a chance to play ‘where’s Palin?’ once more.
Darwin T Dodo
CEO and genius
I need rather a lot of cake after that.
