They're really great and we try to have Kiwi themed things at home in London so our kid learns more about where his mum grew up. Koreru has become code word for every fat London pigeon at this point 🤣

I know! My shopping cart is filling up 😊

Omg I love these! Piwakawaka and Kea are both on my top 10 birds 😍.

That's what I thought it was at first.... Looks the same to me. 🤔

In the 60s Isaac's company, which had by that point rebranded as I. Barget Limited, went public. Below is a newspaper clipping from the announment:

Over the next few decades my great grandfather, a lone immigrant, who had walked from Poland to London, had brought employment to hundreds of people. Because that's what immigrants do.

Not long after selling his first cabinet he was the proud operator of his first little factory, Barget Cabinets Inc. Years later, the UK government would ask him to expand his business to the north of England, rent free, as he had proven so capable at job creation.

Years later Issac would tell his daughter, my Nana, that the reason he chose to start his own business was that he had been treated so badly by the non-Jewish employers in Poland that he "would never work for a governor... ", meaning an employer, "...every again". Only for himself.

He got a hold of some wood, built a cabinet, wheeled it around the London neighborhood looking for someone in need of a new cabinet and sold it.

In Nana's words, Issac, my great grandfather had what all immigrants have: gumption, and so after crossing France and the channel, making it to England with no money, he followed the path of most immigrants and refugees: created value.