I survived!

 

I am glad to say that I am still here to tell the tale and I had a  really lovely day out.   I nearly had to cry off this morning because I woke up feeling sick, but Pam arrived and I thought to hell with it.  We have had a super time, both finding things which interested us.  Pam was laughing as the Universe had sent her cockerels!  She wanted a decorative cockerel to go in her kitchen as she bought a cockerel tray there last time.  My goodness, they were EVERYWHERE!  From nice ceramic cockerel teapots to enormous paper mache ones.  She got a painted wooden one she liked, slim enough to go on her windowsill and a pair of little pottery salt and pepper pots with tiny cockerels on them.  A few useful other bits for her kitchen revamp too.

Fortunately it wasn't too hot - not as hot as they said it would be anyway - and it was a bit cloudy, and a breeze blowing.  Phew!  I was worried about struggling in the extreme heat forecast (29 deg).  It was very muggy though and stuffy inside the sheds.  

We met some lovely sellers and at several stalls stopped and chatted for a while.  Just doing that is lovely.  I would have loved to have bought this sampler, but it was £150 (and worth it) and I couldn't justify it.  There quite a few samplers on offer today, but I just took pictures.

A nice hand-sewn wholecloth quilt but my budget doesn't run to three figures on one item.

A cathedral window patchwork hanging.

A lovely bodge-it rustic stool - the legs just tree branches with the bark left on, and a lovely rustic chair behind which I wasn't entirely convinced was "right".  Just a feeling.  Perhaps I was wrong, but unless you have a proper look you don't know for sure and I didn't want to waste the seller's time.  There's no come-back at Fairs like this - you makes your choice and you pays the money and Caveat emptor at the end of the day . . .

A reasonably modern (judging by the base - 1930's/40s?) Orkney lambing chair, child sized.  The drawer in the bottom is its real downfall.  No quality there.

A lovely display from Ross Plants, as always.  I managed to walk past without buying anything.

Some really lovely kitchenalia.

Painted blanket box.  Modern paint job.

An early rather monotone early sampler.  Sewn on Sundays only.

The original horse is long gone, but hey, it's a horse and cart all the same.

Sampler and a sewing skills framed piece.  How things were back in the day. Such skills and which had been handed down through generations. The crafting of present times shows sewing skills of a different sort, now pin-tucked underwear or nighties are no longer made.

That doll on the left looks a bit leery!

This lady always has a lovely stall, and I've photographed it before.

Finally, talking of leery.  I have a contender for Worst Taxidermy, which may have triumphed over the fox, photographed below about 10 years ago!  This is, apparently, looking at the front teefs, a beaver.  I think they not only ran out of stuffing - it was very FLAT! - but also had to raid the doll's eyes box to finish it off!!  I think he should have the crown!!  

As a P.S. It is obvious that the side-effect of the new meds (mucous on lungs) is actually a chest infection or pollen on chest, not helping my breathing tonight (though I'm ok).  So that is something sorted out and hopefully it will pass without too much intervention.