Button Biscuits

I spent my early years living above a haberdasher’s shop in Hull. There is something fantastical and storybook-like about haberdashers with their coils of ribbon, trim, appliques, pincushions, patches, cottons and buttons. Along with hardware shops, haberdashers are among my favourite places for treasure hunts.

The comedian Michael Mclintyre talks about the ‘man drawer’ in every home that’s full of batteries, foreign coins and instruction booklets. Surely we have th