Retirement is looming so some years back I started exploring ways and means of developing my 'SECOND LIFE' - I could not envisage a future of not doing any work at all.
Opportunity knocked hard and loud when friends in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter contacted me and told me about pearls that they had been offered by a factory clearance contractor. Intrigued, I was on the M1 within the hour.
In the storeroom was a pile of old boxes of different shapes and sizes.
The first box I opened was a jumble of loose pearls and strings of pearls knotted and entangled and all of different shapes and sizes and colours.
VINTAGE COLOURS
creams of all varieties....rose creams, velvety creams, deep creams, metallic creams......
With a sinking heart, it was difficult to imagine the hours it would take to sort the pearls by sizes and colours however I felt I should look at all the boxes as my friends clearly felt that these pearls were just 'the opportunity' I was looking for.
Opportunity may well come in different shapes and sizes but clearly this was not the case in this instance.
