Mmmmm delicious fatty-acid salts

Another in the occasional series on the nature of Petone. There is a shop called Village Beads. They just sell beads and bead related paraphernalia and nothing else. Well nothing else until recently that is. Now they have a small counter down the back (past all the beads) that sells fudge. Delicious, creamy, home-made fudge (they have samples). A number of places in Petone are like that - two shops in one. Like the kebab shop that looks more like a Turkish fabric shop or the cat ornament shop that also sells used books.

Actually, it took me a while to catch on about the fudge in the bead shop. I assumed they were advertising the hair care range of the same name - I mean beads and hair can go together right? Pictures didn't help because I have fudge like objects associated with soap in my mind at the moment. One of my colleagues has a basket of soaps she is selling for school fundraising. The soaps are all molded to look like confectionery - fudge, jellies, chocolate powder, marshmallow and even chocolate fish made out of soap. Another of the team bought a package and left it lying around on the table where he often has chocolate etc lying about. When his kids paid him a visit the other day, his plan fell into shape in just the hilarious manner you would expect.