My gorgeous kittens and an enjoyable day out

 

Here is clever-clogs Lulu with her favourite toy, a pingpong ball covered in string. She LOVES to have it thrown for her, and is very deft with her paws - she could play for the Man. City Cats!  As you can see she carries her trophy with her too!

I have kept their favourite box - they love it because the sides have holes in them for them to stick their paws through and they can still just squeeze through the narrow opening at the far end.  Pippi loves to have my attention.  In her mind, the best way to get it is to Be Naughty and she has taken to going behind the tv where she sits solemnly and then pretends she is going to chomp through one of the wires (that makes me react!) or she jumps up on the tv stand and heaven knows what she plots there, but worst of all she climbs onto the joint stool beside the tv, which has a couple of photos and one of a pair of Imari Ginger Jar lamps, puts her paws up ON the land and insists there are spiders there . . .  That REALLY gets me up and running!  She is a devil for plotting mischief and far too clever by half.

Today Keith and I went to the Fleamarket on Carmarthen Showground, where we used to regularly stand back in pre-Covid times.  Here are a few of the stands and what was on offer.

A lovely Welsh hand-quilted quilt, but with a heft price tag (£250).

A cheaper Welsh quilt outside, but orange is a difficult colour for people to match in their homes - although I suppose it would be a nice foil for battleship grey walls . . .

This lovely narrow-loom Welsh carthen, fringed on all sides, came home with me.  Isn't it pretty?  Even though pink isn't normally my colour.  

Keith was a happy bunny as he paid the balance on the Indo-Persian dagger he fell in love with last week at the Botanic Gardens Fair.  It IS lovely - such craftsmanship including a Damascus blade the like of which I've never seen before.  He got a couple of other things too, cheaply - he just likes to keep his eye in and know that life is still worth living.

Several people said he was looking better than when they had seen him last, including a couple of people who said he'd even improved on last week.  Indeed he was cheerful, speaking clearer and able to walk to the loo and back from nearby. 

We saw lots of our friends and caught up with news, and he can't wait to go to the next fair now!!

I hope you all had a lovely weekend too.