David's Daily Diversions

Busy Saturday

Today was Mrs Holford's second craft fair. Again we were in Abergavenny. This may not be the best venue for Holford Country Crafts, as she only sold two items and didn't break even on the table cost. This was after the table cost was rebated by £5. Lots of people visited the table and oohed and ahhed at the stuff. They just didn't want to fork out for it. Overall, it seems there are very few sales for any of the stalls at this craft fair.

One stall that made a few sales to the shock and awe of all the other exhibitors was the bloke next to us. He had the absolutely worst watercolour paintings I have seen from anyone who has gotten beyond primary school. Every crafter that saw them would wait until he had momentarily left for a beverage or the bathroom and return to comment at how horrible they were. But he actually sold a couple. Not only that, he actually got a commission from an old lady driving on of those motorised cripplemobiles.

While we were manning the stall, Aidie got to spend the day with his grampy and uncles. After trapsing around town for several hours, seeing his great-grampy, great-great-uncle and great-great-aunt, the carnival, and who knows whatelse, grampy bought him a wading pool and put it in his (grampy's, not Aidie's) back garden.

Aidie had a very exciting day. The only down side is that he got sunburned, had no nap, and after he got out of the pool had no nappy. Grampy and the uncles didn't seem to understand that a nappy is important at all times. Since we didn't bring a change of clothes, we had to quickly go out a buy a new pair of shorts and new t-shirt on the way back to grampy's house, as you can imagine what happens to clothes when there is no nappy underneath for an extended period f time.

Needless to say, we shall henceforth be issuing copies of Childcare for Dummies to the men of Mrs Holford's family. I was quite proud of myself in that I didn't get overought about the situation as I learned the details. At the end of the day, no harm, no foul. The sunburn will go away (it wasn't too severe and they did come get sunscreen from his bag at one point) and he got a new pool and new set of clothes.