This is a very familiar image for us at craft shows this year, tired children , up to their knees in mud. Don't get me wrong, the kids have loved it. Jumping around in mud puddles and getting absolutely covered in it has been great fun for them! Not so great for the rest of us however.
I must have missed that lesson in college all of those years ago: the one where they teach you to blow glass under water!
Well summer is all but over now and the kids are back at school. Just about time for the weather to improve! We have a heavy schedule of shows ahead of us. It should have included one this weekend at Cholmondley Castle near to our home on the Welsh /Cheshire border. You pronounce it "Chummley". Bizzarrely it was called off due to foot and mouth. The last time that I checked foot and mouth was over 200 miles away. The Cholmondley estate are still allowing visitors to the gardens and it is still being used as a bus terminus. There was a steam rally 2 miles from the estate just a couple of weeks ago with over 30,000 visitors and a circus has just come to town, so I don't understand why estate decided our show had to be cancelled.
Well its Belvoir Castle at the weekend and we are really looking forward to it. You pronounce this one "Beaver"!! I think most of these places were named by dyslexics. Last time we were there we watched Oliver Cromwell and a buch of round heads walk past us and head for the beer tent. Strange things always happen at these shows!!!
Posted by Handmade glass at 13:18
I must have missed that lesson in college all of those years ago: the one where they teach you to blow glass under water!
Well summer is all but over now and the kids are back at school. Just about time for the weather to improve! We have a heavy schedule of shows ahead of us. It should have included one this weekend at Cholmondley Castle near to our home on the Welsh /Cheshire border. You pronounce it "Chummley". Bizzarrely it was called off due to foot and mouth. The last time that I checked foot and mouth was over 200 miles away. The Cholmondley estate are still allowing visitors to the gardens and it is still being used as a bus terminus. There was a steam rally 2 miles from the estate just a couple of weeks ago with over 30,000 visitors and a circus has just come to town, so I don't understand why estate decided our show had to be cancelled.
Well its Belvoir Castle at the weekend and we are really looking forward to it. You pronounce this one "Beaver"!! I think most of these places were named by dyslexics. Last time we were there we watched Oliver Cromwell and a buch of round heads walk past us and head for the beer tent. Strange things always happen at these shows!!!
Posted by Handmade glass at 13:18
