We know that SPAR holds a special place in our local communities, but we were bowled over when a local poet in Castle Douglas, Scotland, was moved enough to pen a tribute to their local SPAR!
Waxing lyrical
It all came about when the local poetry society challenged their members to wax lyrical about local businesses as part of Castle Douglas Food Town Week. The town has been designated a Food Town because there are 50 local businesses involved in either producing or selling food and drink.
Owned by Dougie and Marlene Edgar, SPAR King Street, Castle Douglas, (pictured) has been serving local residents for the past eight years, and offers high-quality local produce everyone can enjoy. Marion Docherty, Manager of King Street SPAR, and her team were delighted to receive the following poem in its honour:
A Blast fur the SPAR
Ah blaw a trumpet fur the SPAR –
It’s handy, nae need fur a car,
Ye git here on yir ain twae feet,
By daunerin doon the toon’s Main Street.
It’s no ower big and no ower sma’
Buy steys within proportion’s law
Why shuid we cover God’s green acres
Wi scaled-up hypermerket capers?
And why hiv excess that annoys us,
Aisle efter aisle wi endless choices?
Everythin’s here that maist fowk need,
Vegetables, cereals, loaves o breid,
The best o “hamely fare”, it seems –
And no juist tatties and baked beans.
Hae a snack in toon, then step this way
Sae lang’s ye’ve got a pun’ or twae,
And maybe, as yir bag ye fill
We’ll hae a blether ower the till.