W&W POP-UP UMBRELLA SHOPPE NOW OPEN!

Come on down to the corner of swanston & lonsdale streets, Melbourne and visit me in my little place I'll be calling home for the next 10 days! And to top it all off it's just started to rain!

WET & WENDY POP-UP UMBRELLA SHOPPE SNEAK PEAK

THANK GOODNESS MY BROTHER ANTON AND MY FIANCEE JOEL ARE BOTH GENIUSES
I can't believe i'm saying this but...could the rain just stop for 30 minutes so we can get this thing up and get it set up!?
SEE YOU ALL FROM TOMORROW MELBOURNE! x

ICEBERG ALLEY

satellite image via european space agency

For Hundreds of years now, around May & June more than 1000 icebergs break off the glaciers of the westcoast of Greenland down to the eastcoast of Newfoundland, Canada, decorating the bays and often blocking the harbours. This is where the bergs enter the shipping lanes thus giving the area the nickname Iceberg Alley. 

The top picture here shows the Petermann's Ice Island which, when it broke from the Petermann's Glacier was four times the size of Manhattan.. when it arrived it blocked the harbour of Goose Cove NF. The satellite image shows the berg last year on it's journey (see it right in the middle?).

These  icebergs, in their silent glory are time capsules -- sealed thousands of years ago, when snow fell on Greenland and compressed into glacial ice.  One can only think *Global warming sigh.

ore than a thousand icebergs break off southern Labrador and northern Newfoundland

Source: Planetsave (http://s.tt/12uDT)

ore than a thousand icebergs break off southern Labrador and northern Newfoundland

Source: Planetsave (http://s.tt/12uDT)

MASTER OF BRELLAS

One day Wet & Wendy will have our own stores. We'll keep you covered whatever the weather, rain, hail or shine, we will have the most beautiful stores you've ever seen and we will have our own mending man, a gorgeous little old man dedicated to customising and repairing your umbrella's. He will be a master of his craft and will pass this trade down to a Wet & Wendy apprentice sitting at his side, taking on the legacy.

We have all got so used to this throw-away society where we are happy to by a cheap throw away umbrella and bin it when it's frame breaks on the second day, I dread to think of the land of lost and broken umbrellas.


One man is making a difference. I always pop by whenever I am in Hong Kong, he is so happy in his dusty little stall and it makes me happy to see him taking such care to fix umbrellas whatever the type, cheap or expensive, he is Ho Hung Hee.

After World War II, Mr Ho learnt his craft working at a Hong Kong umbrella factory, he then left to work at his one man umbrella fixing business where he works to this day. For over 55 years Mr Ho has fixed the cities umbrellas. He even holds the Guinness World Record for making the worlds most expensive umbrella. He made two from 100 year old German umbrella frames he found and Ox hides. He sold one for $2000 and the other he refused to sell, he donated it to the Hong Kong Museum of History.


Mr Ho please come to work for Wet & Wendy?

Ho Hei Kee, 74 Peel Street, Central, Hong Kong; tel. +852 2778 4306.
Open Monday - Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Closed Sundays.

FUN IN THE SUN

All this glorious Winter sunshine is making us so excited or the new Spring Summer range!
Here's some stunning, sunning, pics of yester...

Varazze, Italia, 1970.  taken by Paolo Martinez

1950's Longboat Key, Florida.

Amazing, but unknown

Woman with Parasol in a Garden
Pierre-Auguste Renoir