(OK, the woodworking store isn't, but rather the location here is now that).
I live in western PA in the United States. Think sheffield of the new world (there are still a few mills left here, but nothing like the old days when steel and coking was literally done in the city).
Up the road from me was a rockler store (knowing that, you can get a pretty good idea where I live). I don't think Rockler makes it to the UK, but it's no big deal if you're into hand tools - I had much difficulty, despite literally being minutes away, finding anything worth buying there. They did have liquid hide, but the last two times I bought it, the bottles were set up and I got fed up. I tried getting hinges there when I did my kitchen, but a cabinet supply specialist on the internet was literally half price for blum. Half. Same with guides.
So it wasn't a great loss a couple of years ago when the store moved. But the banner from the last sale was still up on the property last I looked, and then today, the store has a new sign up, was completely repainted cleaned up (must've been in a matter of a week or two) and there's a big weed plant with some kind of name about nutritionals, and then a big sign stuck in the grass "DISPENSARY!".
I did have some luck buying from rockler when I first started, partly because I needed little bits and bobs that I'd just make now, and partly because their business has changed (they used to have hock irons and other things like that, but no longer). The store does still exist, but entirely on the other side of the city. And a little over a year ago, I did manage to get giant bench bolts from them (and made a rock solid loft bed for my daughter, who sleepwalks (I made it so that it would be difficult to climb over with provisions to later cut the highest rail off when she sleeps like a civilized person).
Woodworking to weed. Weed has become popular here in the states as the virtue laws (just like gambling) fall with the opportunity to tax it. But, that said, even when I was in school, I never met a single person who actually got busted for it unless they were caught for something else AND literally had weed on them. The cops knew which drugs were actually causing trouble, and weed wasn't one of them - even in a rural area they had that mindset. I never tried it, I"ll admit. Afraid I might like it.
I live in western PA in the United States. Think sheffield of the new world (there are still a few mills left here, but nothing like the old days when steel and coking was literally done in the city).
Up the road from me was a rockler store (knowing that, you can get a pretty good idea where I live). I don't think Rockler makes it to the UK, but it's no big deal if you're into hand tools - I had much difficulty, despite literally being minutes away, finding anything worth buying there. They did have liquid hide, but the last two times I bought it, the bottles were set up and I got fed up. I tried getting hinges there when I did my kitchen, but a cabinet supply specialist on the internet was literally half price for blum. Half. Same with guides.
So it wasn't a great loss a couple of years ago when the store moved. But the banner from the last sale was still up on the property last I looked, and then today, the store has a new sign up, was completely repainted cleaned up (must've been in a matter of a week or two) and there's a big weed plant with some kind of name about nutritionals, and then a big sign stuck in the grass "DISPENSARY!".
I did have some luck buying from rockler when I first started, partly because I needed little bits and bobs that I'd just make now, and partly because their business has changed (they used to have hock irons and other things like that, but no longer). The store does still exist, but entirely on the other side of the city. And a little over a year ago, I did manage to get giant bench bolts from them (and made a rock solid loft bed for my daughter, who sleepwalks (I made it so that it would be difficult to climb over with provisions to later cut the highest rail off when she sleeps like a civilized person).
Woodworking to weed. Weed has become popular here in the states as the virtue laws (just like gambling) fall with the opportunity to tax it. But, that said, even when I was in school, I never met a single person who actually got busted for it unless they were caught for something else AND literally had weed on them. The cops knew which drugs were actually causing trouble, and weed wasn't one of them - even in a rural area they had that mindset. I never tried it, I"ll admit. Afraid I might like it.
just make sure youve got some nice food kicking around for when you get the munchies 
i once woke up on someone else's sofa and there were darts in the ceiling above me 
there were a few dart holes kicking around and the board wasn't near 
they were less complicated times 
). Lots of pa dutch influence in the Lancaster area, and there's not a whole lot of small talk (some of my ancestors were dutchy - some amish/mennonite and some protestant). It's a totally different kind of culture, but that will probably wear away as the internet makes everything the same. For now, though, there is still influence from the dutchy background - which is being a little suspicious of people who are friendly for no reason.
