mookau – Sheffield's premier gift boutique
Easter Opening Hours
Mar 24th
It’s Easter next weekend- didn’t that come around quickly?
We will be open as normal on Good Friday and Easter Monday, but we will be closed on Easter Sunday.
Our opening hours are:
Good Friday (2nd April) 10am to 6pm
Easter Saturday (3rd April) 10am to 6pm
Easter Day (4th April) Closed and eating chocolate
Easter Monday (5th April) 11am to 4pm
Then back to our normal opening hours of 10am to 6pm Monday to Saturday and 11am to 5pm on Sunday.
Lemonade and Cupcakes – this Saturday at mookau
Mar 1st
What a fabulous start to March this is – bright sunshine and everything! Perfect weather for taking a stroll down to the shops. It’s the first day I’ve seen the postman smile for ages.
If you come to mookau this Saturday, March 6th, you’ll be in for an even bigger treat than normal because we’re having our ‘Wahey! It’s Spring!’ event, where we’ll be giving away mini cupckaes made by our friends at Fancie along with glasses of lemonade.
There will be special offers on the day, too, so do call in, and tell your friends – we’d love to see you all!
Mothers Day Chocolates
Feb 26th
It’s Mothers Day on March 14th this year, and we’ve got everything you need to make your mum smile here at mookau, including a fabulous range of Juciy Lucy cards and this rather amazing chocolate. I can personally vouch for the chocolate being very nice as I *cough* accidentally broke one so I had to eat it.
Lucky You
Feb 25th
I’ve had Lucky You by the Lightning Seeds in my head all day today because we’ve had a delivery of some of the new things we ordered from a company called Luckies. For those of you who are either a child of the 90′s like me, or just curious as to what I’ve been humming, there is a youtube video at the end of the post. I’m connected via my mobile at the moment (get me!) so I’ve not actually watched it, so apologies if it switches to footage of a pigeon being run over or something half way through.
Anyway – enough of the 90′s nostalgia – what new things have we got I hear you ask. Well, first off we have the fabulous bean pods, which is the perfect gift for a gardener with no garden – simply attach the bean to a window with the sucker provided, moisten the provided compost, sew the seeds (we have basil, parsley and coriander in stock) and watch your herbs grow – just don’t forget to water them every few days. We have a coriander one in the shop window, so look out for shoots as you pass by- it takes two weeks to grow properly according to the instructions.
We also have these Lucky 8 ball candle holders, made from real pool balls. Each ball is drilled so you can use it one way up to hold tea lights, and the other way up to hold normal candles. Perfect for turning your bachelor pad into a love nest, without looking too soft – it’s a real pool ball from an American pool hall too, so it’s recycled.
My mobile is about to run out of battery, so I’ll leave it there, I’ll post more later! In the meantime, here are the Lightening Seeds…
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Feb 24th
Well it’s got cold again hasn’t it? I keep having to remind myself that it *is* still February though, so a little bit of cold is to be expected. If you are feeling cold by the way, watch some of the Winter Olympics – I saw some last night, and that does look cold, which in a way makes you feel warmer. Everything is relative after all, and in Toronto there is snow and ice as far as you can see, and most of the competitors are in lycra as well. You’d be very unfortunate to ever catch me in lycra, especially as my bike was stolen 9 years ago, but you’d definitely never catch me out in the snow wearing lycra. Possibly in a big coat, boots and a hat, but not in lycra.
Anyway – forget the cold, and forget if you can the image of people in the cold in lycra. I’m sorry I mentioned that now. I’m not even sure why I started on about the weather now, because this post isn’t supposed to be about the weather at all; you can look out of the window to see what it’s like.
No, this post is much more exciting than high pressure over the Azores, this post is to tell you that if you sign up to our mailing list you will not only be the first to know when we have special events on at mookau, but you will also receive via email a rather spiffing 10% off voucher to us. Click here to sign up.
You say tomato, we say ‘We’ve got a squeezy for that’
Feb 24th
When I was younger, so much younger than today you used to see tomato shaped sauce dispensers everywhere, or at least everywhere you would expect there to be sauce: chip shops, cafés, that kind of thing.
And then one day they all disappeared. It was peculiar. Perhaps the big tomato exodus is explained somewhere in The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, but I don’t remember it.
Anyway, they’re back, and they’re better than even because they now come in colours other than red.
Naturally there is a red one, but there is also now a brown one for your brown sauce (if they invented brown sauce now I’m sure they’d give it a better name) and a pink one for mayonnaise, thouasnd island dressing, or whatever you want to put in it. Click on the picture – or here – to buy one now!
mookau on the radio
Feb 11th
Some of you may have heard me on BBC Radio Sheffield this morning on a feature about the council spending money promoting the city centre but ignoring the independent retailers who are outside of the city centre.
My main argument here is that us independent retailers generate a much better return for the local economy that chain stores do. Every £1 local businesses make generates £1.73 for the local area. Every £1 made by a chain store makes 36p locally – and yet the council spends much more time an money supporting the chain stores and the city centre than it does on supporting local businesses.
Anyway, I’ve put together an idea of how we at mookau would like to see the retail future of Sheffield unfold, if you’re interested you can read it here.
Undercover laptop case
Feb 8th
One of the other things we ordered yesterday to arrive at mookau soon is this rather brilliant stealth-case for laptops.
Sure, it looks like a tatty old envelope, but it’s actually a beautifully padded case for your laptop, which will hold any laptop from 8 inches to 17 inches thanks to the wonder of velcro. The exterior is made of one of those space-age materials that looks like paper, but is tear-proof and waterproof and can be written on, and I think they’re really rather brilliant. Probably best not to actually post your laptop though.
Warm her feet, warm her heart
Feb 8th
They say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, although a friend who is a doctor assures me there is a more direct route.
In my experience the way to a woman’s heart is through making sure her feet are warm at all times, and these knitted snugboots will do just that – in fact they’ll do more than that because they look amazing too, and even have those little rubber grips on the bottom.
They’re available now at mookau, or you can buy online by clicking here, or on the picture above.
You’re not snowing anymore
Feb 8th
Well for a brief while there it looked like we were going to get a fair bit of snow in Sheffield, but it stopped as suddenly as it started.
Here’s proof it did snow, for posterity.
