The OH is off on a singles holiday in Spain, though as he’s doing a video call or two every day, it’s not as much of a holiday for me as I envisaged. My block of stone I have not sculpted much this cold, rainy so-called summer was sinking into the lawn at a perilous angle. Two strong men from next door came round and moved it a bit to firmer ground, for which I was grateful. The OH, however, opined that it was in the wrong place and should have been round the other side of the shed. Trying to control something that happened two hours ago from another country seems like an excellent definition of futility to me.
I have been watching television in my own lounge. Normally what gets watched in there is dramas about people killing each other, submarines and cowboy films, so I don’t go in there often. Now I am watching quite a bit of what I like with my feet up.
In between I am getting ready for the next show. I want to do it all and put it away. Right now I’m designing a new stand. I almost had it ready for the last show but it was all stuck together with Blu-tak. I have done a redesign in which the boxes (the garage and Slight Versailles,) stack on top of each other, on a shoe box. The pile of boxes is backed by a stand which is an adapted picture frame. I wanted them to have a cardboard slice at the back of each box that would slip over the picture frame card and eliminate the use of anything sticky at the show. It took three goes to perfect it (given that it’s all bits of cardboard.) I have an unshakeable belief in the use of old shoe boxes. Beefed up with bits of card, covered glamorously, I can make almost any display I want to with old shoe boxes.
Having a wardrobe full of old shoe boxes is the only downside. The upside is that with a bit of card, paper and glue I have a new display for next to nothing.
I have also rationalised my sock drawer, cooked from scratch twice, caught up with the gardening, been food shopping to the nice out of town M&S and put four wheeled cases, ready to go, for the next show, replete with lots of new, made, product boxes in the cupboard.
It’s amazing what you can do with an OH in a different country completely. Who knows what I will do tomorrow?
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