a year without shops?

dress : vintage hat : seeberger sandals : matalan I've been thinking about "shopping local" recently. I live in quite a small town, which is not only home to plenty of history and architecture, but is also home to lots of independent shops. I must admit that I often forget about them. When I head into town on a weekend it's usually to run a few quick errands and I tend to stick to the same places if I'm having a short browse. But a few weekends ago, Lauren and I made an effort to go to some of the shops we hadn't tried before - particularly vintage clothes shops. I was quite excited to find that in one of the little shopping centres...