Sure. Us, tea shop, pub.
We have a microwave in which we can heat up some of the smaller pies, but we’re not a takeaway establishment.
The pub has had its current name for at least 150 years and probably a lot longer. It is a fairly common name though.
Drive or take the bus service.
If you have a car you’ll drive. 20 minutes V 90 minutes…
Once there you have a good (by UK standards) train service.
Do you wear a kilt? Drawers? 
And full of hairy knees…mostly on the blokes.
Honestly you guys have never been the same since “Braveheart” 
For the odd formal occassion, such as weddings and Burns’ night.
checks knees
Heh, you are quite right. Mind you I look great in a kilt, but that’s usually just for weddings, and I’m at the age where divorces are rather more common.
Do you sell sweets from those big jars - cola cubes, for instance?
Do you limit the number of schoolchildren allowed into your shop at one time?
Do you make your own tablet?
We do sell loose sweets, yes.
No limits on the number or character of people allowed in the shop - in fact a local cat sometimes sticks its head in, and no problem with dogs etc coming in with their owners.
No. We could do though, if we wanted to.
Thanks, Small British Shop Owner, for answering my questions. I’ve heard of the Metric Martyrs; there was a similar version in Canada when gasoline selling went to litres. I don’t generally agree with them; I prefer metric to imperial any day.
However, I think I would agree with them in that Canada has the worst of all worlds in the metric department: a conversion that stopped halfway through. As a result, we have an astounding mishmash of three separate systems: SI metric, imperial, and US Customary. Just try designing a house when the building code is in metric and all the parts are in feet and inches.
Blame the Mulroney Conservatives, who stopped the process of conversion in 1984. Also blame the successor governments, who never resumed conversion.
Canada needs to finish converting to metric, like Australia did. </end of rant>
“Tablet”?
This must be another one of those cross-pond miscomprehensions, because I don’t understand you. To me, tablet = “slab of stone, on which things are often written” or “compressed dry pill often used for drug delivery” or “pad of paper or computer on which one can write or draw”.
Tablet is one of Scotland’s finest sugar delivery vectors, Sunspace. It’s kind of like a more crystalline fudge; I think my mother made it by boiling sweetened condensed milk and sugar until a particular temperature. All very scientific.
Are you on one of the Western Isles, Shop Owner, or on the mainland? Are you Scots? And if so, a local, or did you come from away? Did it take you long to be accepted if that was the case?
And it makes my teeth hurt even looking at it.
There it is. Prepare at your own risk. Please notify next of kin, local fire department, and your dentist before preparation.
The finest is, of course, Treacle Toffee.
Oh my. Those aren’t treats; they’re drugs. So I guess my second definition of “tablet” almost applies.
(That reminds me. I need to make an appointment at the dentist…)
I you do fancy making some of that stuff, keep Red Adair’s company on speed dial - a pot of boiling sugar looks like lava.
Some readers might laugh at this, but tis true… It’s more or less the same process to make, say, fudge or toffee, just slighly different temperatures. This is what a sugar thermometer is for.
Mainland, not Scots at all (in fact before this I worked in London, one reason I can afford to have such a hobby). No problems at all being accepted in this area - the locals are very friendly and practically cosmopolitan, as many tourists coming here like it so much they decided to live here.
I think that this would be different in the North East, say. Or indeed in some of the Western Isles with the “Wee Frees” and all that entials. Our local friendly sect was the Covenanters, but they’ve died out now!