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David’s AW News: A Buddha on the Mountain

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Greetings once again from Spain... Hope you are well and enjoying the Summer.. Well, this  is not something you see every day... One of our customers has installed one of our Giant Garden Buddhas on a mountain top in Slovakia. We are told all planning and permissions were correctly obtained, which is always nice to hear. More on that later, but I thought it made a pretty wonderful picture to start this week’s newsletter. ...but not for much longer. Next week I will be packing my bags and heading off again. It is back on the road, back to visiting suppliers, back to hunting down new ideas and hopefully bringing you the next wave of interesting products. One thing I have learned over the years is that new products do not find themselves. You have to go looking. Last week I was telling you about flirting with danger in Mijas, the almost-lost Spanish ID card, and my close encounter with the famous mustard scam. If you missed it, you can catch up here .  This week has been less d...