Daisy Chain

While scouring Stockton for upholsterers to renovate, or furnishers to replace, a couple of armchairs, comfy but battered by the cats’ claws and the boy’s bum, we called into the Daisy Chain Charity Superstore on Portrack Lane; it is a cavernous space but well laid out, with an interesting security system consisting a woman who challenges anyone who tries to leave without making a purchase – we mollified her by having cups of tea and bacon Panini in the pleasant café area, and by buying five paperback books for £2.