The next big thing

We've had a few new additions to the household since I last wrote.  OH took the children fishing.  They all seemed very excited as they set off with their Heath Robinson contraptions - a bottle cut in half, wire handle, long pieces of string, filled with gravel.  I decided to leave them to it.

They left their bottle traps in the river and returned a few hours later.  We now find ourselves the proud owners of several minnows and one stickleback (called sticky-back by the children).

The fish now live in an aquarium, and the children just sit and watch them, OK I exaggerate, they fight for the best seat, to sit and watch them from.

Holiday hair in action!

I, by contrast don't have time for fun, I have spent all my free time getting ready for a fair this weekend.  Do you remember my bold statement of 'No more craft fairs' back in April?  And how I gradually slipped back into old habits?  Well this weekend sees my big one of the summer.  I don't anticipate a huge number of sales, but it is one of those ones where you get more space than you know what to do with.

I couldn't find a picture of the show but here is the field! 

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It is Clutton Flower Show - what? you cry.  Well, that is my home village, I often steward the judges, visit my Mum, and so I might as well have a stall there too.  Flower Shows are funny things, those that garden, tend to have money, so if you can just catch them in the right mood ...