McGrath

For the first time ever I have found some where that can do photocopies to AO size and other large dimensions. There may be other places doing this that I don’t know about but as far as I am concerned McGraths is a useful find just for that.
Otherwise it carries all the usual office supplies, including reams of coloured photocopy paper and coloured card and writing papers. It is a workman like shop, nothing fancy, but with a plentiful stock of a practical, every day nature in the stationery line.
As a small business the prices are bound to be higher than you can get at the supermarket as I did notice, for instance, that the hard back note books were more expensive but still, the big chain multiples do not always provide the answer to everything I am glad to say.

After a lovely, stomach-​stretching lunch on a Friday afternoon, you wouldn’t expect two girls in their early twenties to be checkin’ out a stationery /​office supplies shop, now would you? Ha, well that’s where you’re wrong. A regular pursuit of mine (just kidding, I’m not *that* sad, ahem), but an ever-​growing pastime of my trainee teacher friend, we both decided to pay McGrath’s a visit.
I didn’t take much persuading, and was instantly lost in the brightly coloured sticky-​notes section, followed by the ever favourite pen section (see my review on Bradbury Graphics), as well as the notebook /​diary section. Rows upon rows of folders, ring-​binders and other organisational methods filled me full of euphoria, and the coloured paper section was just far too overwhelming. I know, my sadness rate has just risen to ‘sky high’.
The purpose of our visit was to find some photograph paper, but it was really very expensive in comparison to Tesco’s finest (so I was informed… I wouldn’t know the price of this sort of thing if it came up and biffed me on the nose). They did have a good variety — gloss, matt and other fancy papers, and all in different sizes too. Just nothing that tickled my friend’s fancy.
It was a difficult goodbye, but I offered to accompany my friend again if she should ever need a helping hand. Stuff the fact that she’s away back to England for the foreseeable future…