Yesterday we decided to go to Stow-on-the-wold because I really love it there.  Of course there is my favourite shop – As Long As It Sparkles. I just think that the girl who runs that shop is a genius. She know exactly what her target market is (me!), what they like to buy and how to present it. Whether it is a rugged old wall hook for sale or beautiful sparkly jewellery, she manages to put completely incongruous things side by side and make them work.

JT particularly likes the kitchen shop there, where you can buy all sorts of cooking gadgets. We bought a silicon spoon, a frying pan thingie, a JosephJoseph saucepan colander (genius!) and a bottle topper.

There was also a church fete/flower festival which I insisted on going in. I have been brought up going to such ‘English Delights’, JT has not. I feel that it is my marital duty to educate him in the ways of buying little paper tickets to be chosen from a spinning barrel, in order to win a bottle or Panda Pops, a half-empty bottle of Badedas or a tin of Glenryck Pilchards. Actually, he did rather well and won a bottle of “Gaymers” (haha!) cider.

I also purchased some second hand books, entered a mysterious raffle and dropped a donation in a large glass bottle for the maintenance of the church building because I liked their motto “To serve God and the community”.  Such is the way of the little village fete.

After that, I did some more stray sock sewing. I am getting quite a lot of requests on Facebook! Can’t keep up…

The sock clan so far…  For no other reason than the fact that they are mindless and fun to make. All allocated! Any requests?