Going back to Dando's,s a true story.
For some reason I do not know, my Mother used to order her mags from there rather than from the local newsagents in Rhos where we lived.
So one day I was dispatched to fetch said mags from Dando's. I was around eleven years old and of a shy disposition, always nervous of adult strangers and very easily embarrassed.
I take my courage in both hands and walk in up to the counter and in a nervous voice said "For Mrs. Owen of Rhos on Sea. Can I have The Gardener, The Lady, and The Scout"
The women behind the counter fell about laughing. It was years and years before Lady Chaterleys Lover was published, but looking back on it I assume it was something on those lines that they were laughing about.
Of course me, the embarrassed shy kid, thought for some reason they were laughing at me. I never went back in that shop again
Don't know what they were laughing about Mike, but The Lady is still going strong!
2 years ago, I won a free annual subscription of it, (it's a weekly still), and Mrs Fester started to read it.
It's very 'high-brow', very 'Downton Abbey' if you will.
When the free year ended, they very kindly carried on sending it.... for another year, and we have never paid anything!