It is down on our showground, so no lengthy journey. Yesterday was the first day, and it closes at 3.30 today, so Tam got the afternoon off work and travelled over yesterday. Rosie was being very loving and delighted by the new farm animals I bought her. I did some baking and made a chocolate apple cake and pineapple upside down cake, though being a dozo, I forget the brown sugar over the pineapple slices. Many years since I last made it. Never mind, it will still be nice with custard. I made a big dish of cheesy potatoes too, Rosie's favourite, and she had a big portion for her tea, but carrots were Off the Menu for her. One chomp and then the carrot was put back on the plate! She was relatively early to bed and Tam and I watched Small Prophets (she'd not seen it yet) and we enjoyed a glass or two of wine.
Bathroom window view on Thursday morning.
I don't know how big the Fair will be today. The entrance is where we go as stall holders, around the back, so they are clearly keeping folk off the grass which must be literally floating over on the showground after 6 weeks of non stop rain. I shan't spend much but will check what colours I needed from Doughty's - I think I needed some more cream and some soft greens for a project. Not that I have touched quilting for months - since coming back from NZ. I have done lots of embroidery and knitting though. I definitely need stuffing for Elderberry Bunny, who is a lot more labour intensive than I realized!!
Anyway, I am really looking forward to going. It's nice to have something to look forward to. I had best wash my hair now. Enjoy your weekend.
P.S. L. Whale mending but steadfastly refuses to eat food with his medication on. The paw/claw area looks to be healing well anyway.
Enjoy the quilt fair and how handy that you haven't got to travel far.
ReplyDeleteIt was rather crammed into a discrete area, and the aisles weren't very wide, especially pushing Rosie in a pushchair. The quilts were in a separate building, and not as many as I expected to see. It will be a three day Fair next year.
DeleteHmmm . . . "I shan't spend much . . . " Famous last words? When you are cut from the same cloth, you speak the same language. Enjoy, hoping to see photos!
ReplyDeleteNo, I was good. I have had SO many bills to pay (£200 this week alone) so couldn't indulge myself.
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed the quilt fair and were good in not spending too much. My heated airer has just gone kaput, it is over 7 years old, so a new one is on order. We also have our Norway cruise to pay for. Have you tried wrapping the medication up in some ham or cheese. Xx
ReplyDeleteIt's liquid! No chance of disguising it except in cat food and he is turning his nose up at everything I give him... I have spent about £8 on special cat sachets and to no avail. We are Not Tempted.
ReplyDeleteI've done well w your suggestion of butter for meds. Could you mix the liquid into t he beuter and sort of pop it in his mouth? Another friend who baby sat Mo used ham--not deli turkey or rast beef, oh no--only am! to hide Mo's myriad of pills. So far in Feb I have spent over $600.oo for Mo's eye/ ear treatments and meds. There goes my new slipcovers money ==again.
DeleteIt's a LOT of liquid medication - a pipette full and then a bit more. It doesn't even mix well with a sachet of cat food. The other one is slightly thicker but still too much to blend with butter. He seems to be mending anyway.
DeleteYour post sounds so happy, too bad the show wasn't so good. But you got out w T & R, so that's lovely. I could use a big bowl of cheesy potatoes plus carrots and cake! Yum. Hurricane winds coming here, and much snow.
ReplyDeleteIt was a lovely trip to the Fair, which, though not very big, had some different stalls that I'd not seen before. I saw some absolutely gorgeous fabric on one stall but the prettiest prints were £8 per 1/4 metre!!! Keep safe - hurricane winds and snow sound pretty hideous to me.
DeleteWere the oh so expensive prints Liberty lawns? That's a very high price. I wanted a simple cotton print for my stash, tiny stars / grey on cream--in case I get over the situation here and make a commemorative 250 yrs USA quilt...44" wide, was $17.oo / yard. I wanted three yards. But NO. Yours is worse.
DeleteCould you put the medication in a syringe, wrap cat in a blanket and squirt it in then blow in his face? Worked with my niece (although we didn't need the blanket)
ReplyDeleteI did try this one night but the amount is quite large. I didn't wrap him up and he struggled so and ran off and I then spent the night awake worrying I had got it in his lungs!! I haven't heard of blowing in their face to make them swallow - I have massaged their throat in the past.
DeleteI hope the show was a wonderful trip. Yikes I see by one reply that the cost of some of the fabric was very high.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
It was an enjoyable outing, and I was good and didn't spend very much. I said I wasn't going to buy fabric . . .
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