Pip Lincolne, owner of Meet Me At Mike's in Fitzroy, stocks cutesy, Japanese-style knitted or crochet toys, known as amigurumi. When we started Mike's, we wanted to sell the things that we loved, which happened to be things with a childlike or nostalgic theme through them, she says. "We wanted to stock handmade items and discovered the Japanese craft movement a few months after.

There would be no more money until every last thing on the shelves was eaten. Now they were down to Sun Maid raisins and Sainsbury's Wheat Bisks. For three days the children had eaten only Wheat Bisks in water and handfuls of raisins.

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