I’m finally clearing everything. So I want you – NEED YOU – to come in and take the stuff away. Try it, like it, make us an offer. And don’t leave it for a moment longer than you have to because you’ll just come in and look at a single rail of out-sized fluorescent jodhpurs and mickey mouse underwear and say “I should have come in earlier…”, and I’ll say “I know, I told you so”.

We also have the Summer Holidaze collection (as featured all over the website) on a very reasonable pre-order discount for another 2 weeks. Then it will be available no more.

Come, bring family, bring colleagues, bring friends – bring strangers and make friends, bring anyone! This morning I even fitted someone’s dog – no joke. But most of all, bring pockets and pockets full of spare change.

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“Presenting the Holidaze collection: built for vacations and inspired by deck chairs. Reminiscent of childhood Kodachrome holidays of never ending summers, green grass, sandy beaches, lazy days, vanilla ice-cream and irrepressible irresponsibility. Lightweight, natural, breathable fibres; reds, blues, creams, frays, stripes and pipes; ginghams, checks, twills, dotts and detail, detail, detail. Jackets lined with chess, checker, word and number games; packed with pockets and filled with function; pack-away stuffable, treat ruffable and utterly loveable.”

That’s what the brochure says – and beautifully written it is too. Ahem.

To be a little less cryptic though, the jackets are our usual fitted cut but with a heavily reduced amount of structure, an increased armhole and a great big lovely lapel; the materials are denims and cottons – navy blue, powder blue, cream and red; and the styles are plain, double piped and deck chair striped. They all have the same printed viscose gingham and polkadot linings that conceal chess and backgammon boards, sudoku, word search, tick-tack-toe and weiki. They pack into their own arms for travel and shoulder straps that double as score strips. They have a sunglass pocket that is lined with micofibre and closed with a magnet; a special holiday novel pocket; and a metal lined pocket that cuts your mobile’s reception for that “out of the office” feeling!

They’re beautiful and I’m really, really proud of them! We’d also like to thank Julia Kennedy, Mark McMahon and Stuart Jones for their respective photography, styling and modelling.

It’s Grazia Night in Carnaby again with almost everyone giving 20% off almost everything to almost anyone – well, anyone who’s pre-registered on the Carnaby website. We’ll be doing the same but ALSO, we’re kicking off our summer of sporting fixtures with a little flutter for you: correctly guess the minute of the first goal in Saturday’s FA Cup Final and we’ll give you a full refund on anything you buy. (No returns!)

The Icelandic volcano has ashed on our suits – linings stuck in Italy, stuck in London, stuck in Singapore… Singapore? So, we are giving 20% discount on all pre-orders for the summer collection deliverable in 3-4 weeks. We won’t be running any other promotions this summer, so this is your chance.

All summer, every Sunday, we’ll be holding a guerilla game of something outside the shop: croquet, cricket, boule, badminton, golf, five-a-side, etc. Something in sympathy with the British sporting calendar. We’re going to commandeer the street, light the BBQ and kick off!

What’s more, The Shaston Arms, next door, will be sponsoring the events. They started opening on Sundays just a few weeks ago and will be providing some sort of something yet to be confirmed. Hopefully cheep booze, whatever!

To keep up to date with the fixtures see the website’s new front page, coming on-line in the next few days.

And finally, could you please check your attics. If you’ve any old sports kit – cricket bats, tennis rackets, footballs, croquet sets, anything – we’d love to borrow them.