Baltic Food Store

There is a row of shops just below my flat and there has been, for some time, a vacant shop which used to be the "Big Brother Security" company. I always rather liked this shop as it seemed like the worst undercover operation in the world... "Don't look at us...there's nothing to see here." You felt compelled to look in the window. But now there are new tenants in the once empty shop and it's a rather incongruous little business calling itself "Baltic food store." There seems to be very little actual Baltic food in there but instead there is an array of noisy people with little or no intention of selling anything to anyone.

I just can't work out exactly what does go on in there... For example, the was a bunch of children outside the shop this afternoon, looking in the window, shouting and laughing. Later, I looked out of my window and I noticed that the Police were questioning a motorcyclist outside of the Baltic food store whilst the staff stood impassively watching the proceedings and still not selling anything. They are open until late at night and I can see various people wandering around the shop but no customers coming in.

There is now a sign in the shop window which states that "Lithuanian is spoken here." For all the custom that the shop gets, they might as well speak Welsh or Icelandic. Nobody will notice the difference. I shall keep my eye on this bizarre little shop and maybe, in the coming weeks, someone will actually pop in with a hankering for some kind of Baltic food. There's hope for them yet.