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We have to get the loading finished for Builth Wells today. We hope to be away at about 8-ish in the morning and if we don’t get held up by the lure of cups of coffee and traffic etc. We should be there shortly after 11 and that will give us the rest of the day to unload and set up, which would be great.
We are not terribly good at being focussed, something to do with both being Aquarians, at least that is what I always blame it on.
Either we both take the lead or neither of us, neither of those scenario’s are good,. Especially when we both assume that the other knows what we are doing. Still it usually ends up reasonably right, probably by the power of prayer and crossed fingers!
Hopefully we will be finished loading by lunch time. The Chimney Sweep is coming at half past twelve and providing he and my Other Half don’t spend all afternoon setting the world to rights, we might have time to buy a few groceries and get a bit of a sit down this evening.
I want to take a packed lunch with us tomorrow, if I get organised enough and if all goes well and tomorrow evening, eat at the village Pub. That is what I am working towards, our reward for all this weeks hard work.
Monday morning, Plan ‘A’ get up early, and by lunch time have the Kia at least half loaded ready to go to Builth Wells Antique Fair on Friday morning. Sadly it is 11am and I am still sitting in my dressing gown staring at the keyboard but in my head it is all going to be straight forward and done by tea time.
In spite of my Other Half’s raging gout and a list of other things to do as long as my arm, and I have to go to School tomorrow and ……..
All will be well, probably!
In my dotage I have turned into a worry guts and in between knowing that no matter what, we usually manage to turn up with enough of the right things to make a good show, I lie awake in the wee small hours fretting about World Peace, do the tyres on the car want checking, will we get everything we need in, will I ever manage to finish knitting the sleeves, will the Grandchildren be all right at school etc.
And to add a frisson (have I spelt that right, neither me nor the spell checker have ever tried for that one before). I really should be worrying about the fact that Aunty Pat is coming to stay on the 29th of Sept, just as we get back from Stafford Antique Fair and a few days before we set off for Peterborough Festival of Antiques! And when we are in Wales we are in sole charge of a flock of chickens (at our B&B), I hope that they all behave!
I have a theory that once it is all written down it will be a doddle and more or less, sort itself out.
Maybe, might be!
Very Autumnal weather we are having, it has turned very chilly early mornings and late evenings although the sunshine is lovely in the daytime as long as you are in a sheltered spot.
Starting off with a weather forecast, never a good sign. It usually means that I don’t have much to say. Although that is not strictly true, I always have plenty to say but whether it is of any interest to anyone else is a moot point.
I am busy bumbling about gathering up bits and pieces to sell in Builth Wells. I find that my books don’t always go terribly well there although maps and things like that usually do, so I like to take some nice pieces of Victorian pottery and sometimes small furniture if we can fit it in.
Yesterday I bought a part Victorian Dinner service, rather nice although not blue and white, the preferred colour but on an old Dresser it would look good. There are tureens and dinner plates and soup plates, a large meat dish and some ladles. I saw it last week and dithered but have thought of it every day since and made my mind up that if it was still there I would see if I could buy it. And it was and obviously, I did, and very pleased with it I am.
I also bought a pair of Burleigh, c1930’s ‘Flying Geese’ vases, again not quite the colour that I like best, they are dark green but very Deco and of their time and hopefully someone will fall in love with them. They are not rare but you don’t often find a pair, and a pair is always better than just one, or so the saying goes.
On Monday we are off to Malvern buying, so I have saved some money for that and then we are off to Builth Wells on the Friday. And so starts a busy September.
After Builth comes Bingley and then Peterborough, inter spaced with the Carnival Glass AGM at Market Harborough and right in the middle of all that Auntie Pat has decided that she is coming from Italy!
She is on her way up to Scotland to visit relatives of her husband but has decided that she must see us as well. She is welcome but won’t stay here on her own and so she has got another cousin to put her up when we are away. All too complicated for me.
Anyway got to go now, these colder mornings make me sleep in later and the day is half gone already.
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