Preparing for a big Fair, when it's just a couple of times a year and so everything gets Put Away and Forgotten About, is a challenge. When we did Fairs every 2or 4 weeks we knew where everything was. I have been getting extra stuff from the stables, as I really must make a bit of space out there. I need to ask our carpenter round and get him to go through and see if there is anything he can use. We have most of a Yew tree, planked, which came with us from Dorset (so has to be felled nearly 40 years ago now!) which needs to be made into something. Keith was going to make Tam a table, but she's only just in her first house and she has no room. Their kitchen has a small pine kitchen table, which already has a replacement sat beside it and the old one Needs To Go. Anyway, there's plenty of Yew for the Future. It's the barrels of bits of chair, dowelling, and useful oddments which I am loathe to take to the Tip so I hope that the carpenter will find a use for it, along with 200 year old wide planks of Elm from a barn at Ynyswen.
I looked in the small freezer and found I had a big glass storage dish with Beef Goulash in, so that will be tea tomorrow night or Saturday for Tam and I. There's Spag. Bol. in the other freezer and we will probably just have a Chippy meal on the Sunday, when exhaustion has set in!
Today I will bake an apple cake of some description to see us through the weekend, and perhaps make some Ginger Biscuits too. I have just got the Gorilla Glue (how DID I survive without it?) so I can fettle 7 broken curtain rings. I glue, wipe and then fasten tightly together with a Zip Tie. This is a tried and tested repair of mine.
Well, this won't do. At least I won't be wasting time on the phone today so should be able to get the last organisation and perhaps the first loading done. Tea is already cooked - the other half of last night's stir fry. I made a double-portion of rice too so it's all ready to be re-heated in the microwave. Onwards and upwards. I shall probably be quietish on here over the weekend from sheer exhaustion as well as lack of time. Next week I will try and dig out some photos of the work we did at Ynyswen when we finally had some money and employed our dear friend Steve Medland, lime expert and builder, to work miracles.
