Moomin Shop

'That's it, I'm leaving,' you say, finger poised to close your web browser in disgust,'Elf's gone flirting again'.

Relax, dear readers. Unstoppably attractive, handsome, sexy and aesthetically perfect as I am - why are you whispering, 'But hardly modest, you little bugger' ? - I must say that Moomintroll is not the latest of my romantic conquests.

No - I am in fact at the Moomin shop in Covent Garden, which does a roaring trade in smuggling little hippopotami (hippopotamuses? hippoppoppoooie.......never mind), out of Finland, packaging them up and selling them to Tourists Who Do Not Know.

Kind of.

In fact, up these stairs, as you may have guessed from the rather in-your-face arrow, is The Moomin Shop, which sells keyrings, mugs, books.......pretty much anything which may be adorned with a Moomin.

In my book, that's pretty much everything.

And here are Moomintroll and Snorkmaiden, cowering beneath a tree as they listen to tales of an elf sneaking around in the woods. Listening in, I get kind of frightened as well.

Apparently, it's around 6 inches high, with blonde hair and a green cloak.

That's bloomin' scary.

If you see it, please let me know so I can make my escape.

If you're planning to visit this shop, you probably need to sell your house, cat and grandmother. It's very expensive. If you don't want to be shocked when you turn up, look on the website first, which I have selflessly and tirelessly provided the link for here (it took an entire 15 seconds, you know).

I also searched the shop high and low for something that can be bought without selling Mr Tibbles, and alas - a small blue eraser, with Moomintroll moomin' on it (you get what I mean. No? Never mind) and the words 'The Moomin Shop, London' on it too. That's just in case you forget which shop would sell you something with a Moomin on it, and you go round the whole of London searching for it, only for someone to suggest, 'Ummm.....the Moomin shop?', and you go round the whole of London kicking yourself for not realising.

That's why the wording is there.

Anyway - the eraser is 60p, perfectly affordable (as in, it's pretty much how much you'd expect to pay for an eraser).


Now, what exactly can I erase?

See you soon,

Elf Dryadalis