Is one of those irritating modern partial phrases. It has nothing to do with bears, irritatingly. It has a dangling preposition and, as a helpful comment, is unhelpful. It seeks to disguise the ineptitude of the speaker by dumping the onus of activity on the listener and is trotted out with little apology. I encounter it on shopping television and crafting channels with boring frequency. It makes my teeth grind and my ears go all floppy.
And now I am saying it to you.
Could you please bear with my saying ‘bear with’ and, additionally bear with my ineptitude for the interim, as normal service is suspended on the blog, while I cobble together a shop, until the writing, proper, returns?
Thank you.
The S&H, bless him, came to the Midlands from Wales yesterday, cautiously, in his new car, to assist his technophobe mother with instruction.
At one point the phobic mother, having searched for about ten minutes for a small blue box on the screen, was directed to the bottom right hand corner, where the small blue box had been hiding in plain sight all along. At this juncture the untechy mother laughed for a good twelve minutes, in the manner of those pretending to a specific cerebral activity, having been found to have the relevant area of the brain thoroughly empty.
And that was just the looking.
As the S&H instructed, I wrote everything down, even the bits that might have been interpreted as slightly condescending, on the basis that you cannot descend further than rock bottom.
We did work hard, well, I worked hard, the S&H filled in the boring bits scrolling on his phone.
I believe learning may have occurred, but I wouldn’t bet next week’s rent on it.
It ain’t perfect. The S&H, having invented the shop, has been unable to prevent a section of the item for sale taking over the heading of the blog where the angel with the doll and the half – dressed girl on the laptop usually sit. If he deletes it from the header, it vanishes in the description too.
Further progress in this matter is anticipated, eventually.
Nevertheless the shop is beginning to occur. You can have a look by clicking on shop, above. I suggest you just have a look for now because there are many more items to be put on the virtual shelves. I am trying to show a representative selection. The S&H has only created two categories: 24th scale, and everything else. This is partly because the sample items I sent him were 24th scale but also because I know there are few craftspeople making original artist articulated porcelain dolls. It took me about 25 years to be able to do it. These all porcelain but moveable dolls are real heirlooms, you can undress them with a pair of scissors in the future and redress them as someone else, which you would have difficulty doing with polymer clay dolls with glued on clothing. Porcelain is strong. Kiln fired ceramics of all types are capable of lasting thousands of years.
It will take me quite a few more days to get the first 34 items into the shop, I’ll tell you when I have done so. As I am aware that I am fairly unique in the matter of articulated 24th scale dolls, I am open to suggestions of any 24th scale dolls you’d like to see in the shop.
I am so sorry the shop can only be for UK addresses. International Trade is very volatile currently.
The other worry that inexperienced online shoppers tend to have is that the money is powered by PayPal. You do not have to be a member of PayPal to shop, nor will it cost you anything to use the facility. You just need a plastic bank card. PayPal charge me for each transaction, not you, and there is a buy now, pay later facility which is nothing to do with me, it’s just something offered by PayPal.
The P&P is a flat rate £5 contribution to the cost. I’ve spent a week making the packaging, if you are one of my Miniatura shoppers, you’ll know the dolls come in nice little boxes, which I make. It’s a collector thing, if you never get round to the house for them to live in, they’ll be quite happy in the box. The postage is not the actual cost because I send orders out by Royal Mail, tracked, and I will email you the tracking information so you can keep an eye on your order arriving.
Thank you for your with, this has been the bear, I will let you know when it’s all there.
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