And this past week has seen plenty of both.
All but a very few pieces remain of our Pine and Oak furniture displays, as we enter a new phase of our store's future as James Allen Bedrooms.
In its vacant position we are now proudly displaying a huge selection of beds and mattresses of all types.
We have 3' (single) mattresses starting from £49.99 and 4'6" (double) mattresses starting from £99.99, we have pocket sprung and we have memory foam, we even have memory latex, we have wooden beds, metal beds, divans and a whole host of headboards to choose from.
And we also have a new supplier.
As we launched Bedzzz, our brand new bed and mattress department, we felt that we needed to be showing the very best, and offering the very best choice to our customers, so we went direct to the country's most recognisable mattress brand, Silentnight.
And with a launch weekend planned, Silentnight sent a very special guest to our shop to watch over proceedings and ensure we were doing a good enough job.
Hippo was far too excited to stay in the shop though and could be seen dancing outside for the whole of Saturday and Sunday, waving to cars, making friends with children, getting plenty of attention from grown women and posing for loads of photos!
Hippo even went for a quick walk around Enfield Town and caused quite a stir wherever he went.
We know we certainly enjoyed our weekend with Hippo, and we're pretty sure that he was having fun too!
If you posed for a photo with Hippo, or just want to see what he got up to, head over to facebook where you can 'like' James Allen Bedrooms' and start tagging the photos of yourselves.
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and don't forget, you can also follow James Allen Bedrooms and Silentnight Beds on twitter.
- Glen
