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PC Peach — Honorary Title. Everything Is Her Business. RVS Duds Dud Dogs — No. 4
You've met Moose. You've met Harley. You've met Jed. Now meet the one who was here before all of them. Meet Peach. Peach is a Pug. She arrived in early 2017 as a rehomer — we were told she was about eighteen months old, which makes her somewhere around ten or eleven now. She arrived unannounced. Deb brought her home and asked Ruby — nine years old at the time — to go and get something from the back of the car. That something was Peach. Ruby and Peach. Inseparable from the sta
Deb Gallimore
Jul 303 min read
Kids dont get easier, they just get different
Baby Cole on dads dragster. Tuesday morning, late July. Payroll day has come round again — a day that never loses its gravitas with me. Being responsible for someone else's livelihood is a weight I feel very acutely, and that's as it should be. Somehow I've found myself with a team of 12 people to pay (that does include myself and Andrew, but still). The original Aprillia, the best grin. This morning my son Cole is here in the office with me — he's been working for the compan
Deb Gallimore
Jul 294 min read
Jed — Chief Ambassador. Available by Appointment to Ruby Only. RVS Duds Dud Dogs — No. 3
If you've been following the Dud Dogs you'll already know Moose — Chief of Security, professional counter leaner, theoretical intimidator. And Harley — 75kg of emotional support with no brakes and absolutely no concept of personal space. Now meet Jed. Puppy Jed the Yakutian Laika standing on his hind legs peeping over a baby gate — before he came home to Ruby and the Gallimore smallholding. RVS Duds Dud Dogs, Shropshire Jed is a Yakutian Laika. If you've never heard of one, y
Deb Gallimore
Jul 284 min read
The Dud Dogs — An Introduction By the RVS DUDS! Team. And Moose. Moose would like that acknowledged.
If you've found your way to RVS Duds you probably already know that we're a family clothing brand born from the floor of a working HGV garage in the Shropshire Hills. What you might not know is that this family extends considerably beyond the humans. We have dogs. Several of them. Each one a character. Each one entirely convinced they are the most important member of the operation. They are not entirely wrong. We call them the Dud Dogs. And over time you're going to get to kn
Deb Gallimore
Jul 282 min read
The Dud Dogs — Harley The one nobody asked for. The one nobody could live without.
If you read our first Dud Dogs post you'll already know about Moose. Chief of Security. Theoretical intimidator. Professional counter leaner. If you haven't read it yet — go and have a look. We'll wait. Right. Now meet Harley. Harley. The Birthday Boy. The One Andrew Didn't Want. Harley is a Leonberger. If you don't know what a Leonberger is, imagine a lion decided to become a dog but didn't quite commit to either. The result is Harley — magnificent, enormous, spectacularly
Deb Gallimore
Jul 283 min read
Sun, Spanners and Santa Pod
So this heatwave has hit me like an absolute tonne of bricks and in that I know I'm not alone. As a young woman I would have described myself as a sun worshipper. I loved it, thrived in it, didn't matter if I was working — working outside was even better, getting a tan while being productive and being paid for it was a bonus. I have worked on the markets in cut off jeans and a bikini top and loved every minute of it. But, apart from the fact that as a country we are not set u
Deb Gallimore
Jun 273 min read
Forwards is forwards
Getting this monster over the finish line is taking every ounce of resolve, strength and patience I have — and then some I didn’t know I had. Nobody gave us a manual for this. Every engineer and tradesperson who walks through the door has their own opinion about how we should have done things and in what order — but not one of them was standing next to us at the start saying this is how you do it. We have been faking it until we make it from day one, on completely new ground,
Deb Gallimore
May 192 min read
When Life Won't Wait
There's a version of running a business and building something new that looks quite organised from the outside. Posts go out. Things get made. Plans get made. And sometimes, just sometimes, it feels like it might all be coming together. And then life reminds you who's actually in charge. This weekend Andrew and I made the journey down to see one of my oldest friends, Sammy. A rare thing — time away, a nice drive, good weather, a proper catch up in the garden. We were gone les
Deb Gallimore
Apr 242 min read
RVS DUDS! - A Thread Worth Pulling
Since the idea of RVS DUDS! began to take shape, my love of charity shops — a source of much eye rolling from the Gallimore Famalam — has found a renewed momentum. I have always shopped this way, believing that a charity shop find gives in many ways; to me, as I get a bargain and it's unlikely anyone else will have the same, to charity as it generates an income, and to the earth as it saves items from becoming landfill. Now I have a whole new excuse — sorry, reason — for my o
Deb Gallimore
Apr 243 min read
Behind the Duds
So! This morning I am genuinely excited and I make no apologies for it. Two industrial sewing machines have arrived at RVS Duds HQ. Second hand — obviously. New to me — absolutely. And honestly long overdue. It's been over twenty years since I've had access to industrial machines. Back in my Deborah Jayne Design days I had a proper setup — a whole room dedicated to creating, cutting, making. Wedding dresses, bespoke pieces, the kind of work that requires the right tools and t
Deb Gallimore
Apr 242 min read
Welcome to the blog — this is where I ramble on about Duds, the garage, the dogs, the disasters and whatever else has happened that week. Fair warning, I do go on a bit.
If something here makes you smile, snort with laughter, well up slightly, or just nod along thinking "yep, that's exactly how I feel," I'd love it if you hit follow. I'm not going to pretend I'm not chuffed every single time someone does.
No pressure though. I'm just a woman in a garage with too many ideas and a sewing machine, writing it all down as I go. But if you fancy coming along for the ride, the door's open, kettles on. 🐝
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