Alice

"The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at one corner of it. "No room! No room!" they cried out when they saw Alice coming. "There's plenty of room!" said Alice indignantly, and see sat down in a large armchair at one end of the table"

Having recently seen Tim Burton's wonderful take on Alice in Wonderland with a returning grown up Alice to Wonderland, and Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter striding down the table, here is the original Tenniel drawing.
I loved Lewis Carroll's Alice as a child and still have my book of Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and always will love the characters and the poems.

 The card was produced by Alice's Shop in Oxford which is supposed to be where Alice Liddell, (Lewis Carroll's Alice) used to buy her barley sugar sweets. Tenniel sketched two illustrations for the book here and it appears as the Old Sheep Shop. The story goes that the owner of the shop had a voice like a bleating sheep so Carrol made her into a character in Alice Through the Looking Glass. Could she knit with fourteen pairs of needles all at once like Sheep in the story? A useful skill.  The shop has been in existence since 1830 and became an Alice themed gift shop in 1965.  I looked on their website but there were no sign of postcards only greeting cards.

I have never visited Oxford but according to the Qype reviews the shop is very small, so difficult to move around. Like the original:

"The shop seemed to be full of all manner of curious things - but the oddest part of all was, that whenever she looked hard at any shelf, to make out exactly what it had on it, that particular shelf was always quite empty: although the others round it were crowded as full as they could hold.
"Things flow about so here!" she said at last in a plaintive tone, after she had spent a minute or so in vainly pursing a large bright thing, that looked sometimes like a doll and sometimes like a work-box, and was always in the shelf next above the one she was looking at."

But I mentioned Johnny Depp at the beginning so I couldn't leave without a very short trail from the film could I:


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