Rihanna Nails occupies a Victorian corner building so beautifully proportioned it could have housed a bank, a solicitor's office, a gentleman's club. The stonework is immaculate. The arch to the right is older still, and a beauty to the eyes.
Inside, introduced by an evocative name: acrylic nails, eyebrow wax, fish pedicure.
This is part of Arrested Development: my project to keep asking — are we evolving in the right direction?