A Rose By Any Other Name

Wouldn't be a rose.
This is definitely a rose and is one from one of the bouquets that SWMBO got yesterday.
She insisted I take her into The Gyle this morning to try and get this fancy lighting up bottle of gin that M7S are advertising. She has enquired at our local one and apparently they only get a handful at a time at random times.
It turns out that even their major shops are in the same position.
I can't help feeling they are really pushing their luck - putting on a huge advertising campaign knowing that they are never going to even try to get the stuff into their stores but that it is going to pull in the shoppers and they hope that they will then spend their money on other things.
Well it didn't (and wont) work with us.
It also became apparent throughout the shopping centre that shops may have big signs up saying that they are taking social distancing seriously and marking out the floor with lines at 2m intervals - but they are still cramming far too much into the shop so it is impossible to get out one you step in because their is no room and too many people.
Shop keepers are saying that 'the High Street' is dying and blaming everyone and everything bar themselves. In circumstances like this I wont even go into the shop - even without Covid to worry about it is a fire hazard and torture on my mental health.

I had fun in the garage again today making a box out of another (different) piece of rock hard, tool killing unknown wood and inlaying brass powder to it ..... I have lost count of the number of times my fingers began to stick to the tube of glue. But it is done.