Portals.The flags and balloons were flying in Portals Nous on Thursday afternoon as Estudio 3 and Vintage Style combined their efforts to showcase their businesses and to celebrate Kay Halley's first anniversary at the Universal Book Shop.
Champagne and the husky tones of jazz singer Michelle Mae brought a party atmosphere to the book signings event at Universal by celebrated local authors Anna Nicholas, Hugh Ash, Rhet Fotheringham-Oliver, Alan Howard and Louie the Lip'.
Kay Halley told how she I came out of retirement to buy her shop.
I'd been here on holiday many times and I liked the shop then when I heard it was for sale I booked a flight and came over for three days, I looked at the shop and decided that I could do something with it.
I had managed a community listed building running projects in the UK so I thought why not, and bought it.
I lived in a hotel to start with, now I'm settled and it's fantastic, I'm in love with the bookshop, it's something to get up for in a morning!
I intend to run workshops here, I have a City and Guilds qualification in furniture making and I can teach sewing, knitting, crocheting and creative studies and have poetry readings.
If children want to learn to read then I'm happy to do that too. I have room at the back of the shop so that people can sit around a table to do these activities; groups of around six or on a one to one basis.
I want this to be a community building, not to function solely as a bookshop.
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