The Ebza's still not selling

Mom: I need a present for Archie next week

Ebza: Buy! Me, Buy Me!

Mom: The boy's a bit rough

Ebza: I’m made from a lump of wood, how strong can he be?

Mom: Something bright and colourful will grab his attention

Ebza: I’m striped, you can’t miss me, and where does it say babies prefer reds and blue’s, to black and whites

Mom: That snake looks good, it’s got numbers on it, it must be educational

Ebza: He’s a baby, he can’t read, let him learn the outline of a Zebra first!

Mom: He puts everything in his mouth; he might get splinters

Ebza: Sorry? I thought he was a baby not a beaver! I’d like to see him try to chew my leg off!

Mom: He’d be safer with a plastic rattle

Ebza: Oh yes, very natural product, apart from the toxins and estrogens. I suppose plastic spoons are safer for cooking too!

Mom: The wood can’t taste very nice

Ebza: Texture! Babies don’t put things in their mouths to eat them, they’re exploring the texture, wood, wool, cotton, it’s all got great texture. Plastic, yuk

Mom: None of this stuff comes in a box, how am I going to wrap it?

Ebza: You could save some money and the planet by not having a box.

Mum: It doesn’t say it comes from a managed forest

Ebza: I see you don’t mind plastic, you want a needless box, but you’re worried about the wood! I might not say, but you’ll have difficulty finding a wooden toy that doesn’t come from a managed source. Anyway it’s all relative, buy a plastic toy and you might as well have burnt 20 trees.

Mum: I’m off to toysRplastic; at least there the toys don’t talk back!

Down To The Wood - second shop in Bath

For anyone who is interested, we are now opening a second shop in Bath.
We will be opening mid November 2007. Getting the lease on the 5th means we will have two weeks to shop fit and stock. We will be looking for staff, so if you are interested, drop us a line.
Otherwise, just pop in and say hello.
We will be getting a web cam up and running hopefully from the 6th November so you will even be able to see the shop fitting in action

Why Ebza’s don’t sell

Boy: I’d like the Ebza

Dad: What?

Boy: I’d like the Ebza please!

Dad: Oh! You mean the Zebra, you don’t want that

Boy: You said I could have what I wanted!

Dad: Yes, but it is just a bit of wood with lines painted on it

Boy: I love it!

Dad: but it doesn’t DO anything

Boy: It’s not supposed to do anything; it’s supposed to fire my imagination

Dad: Ok, what do you imagine doing with it when we get it home?

Boy: Sit it on my shelf

Dad: That’s not very imaginative

Boy: I haven’t got an imagination yet; I only have toys with batteries.

Dad: So how will the Ebza, I mean Zebra help?

Boy: Well, one day when I’m bored of defending the planet against alien invasion and I’m lying on my bed, I’ll look up at my Ebza, and realize I’m an explorer in Africa, I’ll take the Ebza down onto my duvet and I’ll be tracking it through the savannah scrub.

Dad: that’s a persuasive argument, but it hasn’t got a box, it doesn’t look much

Boy: I don’t want a box

Dad: But when we get home it’s got to LOOK good value for money

Boy: So it’s not really about it’s play value?

Dad: Down the road they’ve got these really good space guns that make loads of noises for the same price, and they come in a really big box! Your mum will go ‘Wow!’ when we bring that in

Boy: OK then
Boy: Bye Ebza