TAMAHERE IN OCTOBER

 

5.30 am, and we are up and getting ready to head off to market.  The weather is looking good, just a bit freakin' cold right now.

Yesterday afternoon I spoke to the head of Maintenance/Gardens here in the village about 'the tree'.

There is a tree slap bang outside my garage wall, right where my new window is going.

It has to be the most ugly tree you ever saw.  

ABOVE: That's 'the tree'.  Seems an earlier gardener thought loping the top off, and tying it's branches down with wire would give it a 'nice' shape!  Didn't work.  It looks like that for about 8 months of the year!  BUTT UGLY.

After I spoke to 'L' and 'B' about the tree, I thought they would get around to coming and looking at it eventually.  I told them there was no rush.

ABOVE: They turned up in all of 5 minutes!  And yes, they agreed it was BUTT UGLY, and they would chop it down and replace it with something much nicer.  Something that would not grow too tall and block the sun from my window.  How cool is that?  They had already known about that tree as other people had commented on it being awful.  Glad I'm not the only one who thought that.

Now STEVE doesn't have to 'accidentally' run into it with his bull bars!  Though 'L' said he was welcome to!  😂😅😖  But don't Steve, it's getting removed properly.

Right I better get off here and get a move on... 

Catch ya later on.

ONWARD...

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ABOVE: We arrived just after 6 and it is now 7.40 am, and we are all set up. The weather is perfect right now, but very cold. I'm praying a wind doesn't develop.   We have SO MUCH STOCK! I really don't need to make anything else for a while. 

2.20 pm, and we are home.  So relieved to be home too.  It was a gorgeous day weather wise, but just not that many people out and about.

It was a very average day sales wise.  And after making ALL.  THOSE.  PLACEMATS, we sold NONE TODAY!   

NONE!!!!

That was weird, but at least I sold some here in the village during the past week.   I'm sure they will sell at the end of the day, just not today.

One lady said "OH placemats", rifled through them and then walked off saying "I only like plain ones".  BITCH.  Like really?  😡😠  Go to fucking Briscoes lady, they have plenty of PLAIN ONES.

One lady headed straight to our stall, and chose a Runner for a friend in FINLAND.  So nice knowing my runners are going all over the world.  She was a returning customer, having bought a few runners off us now.

And that is why we keep going... cos we do have loyal, returning customers.  Who expect to see us at Tamahere, and the other markets we have coming up that are regular for us.

Our next market is on Labour Day (Monday 26th October).  Hoping that one is a bit better than today's.  

I have no idea what I shall do with myself this coming week.  I certainly do not need to make anything else for markets right now!  OMG I have so much stock.  Which is a good thing I suppose.

We are now going to play 'Darby & Joan', and have a quiet afternoon/evening.  I woke up this morning at 4 am, and couldn't get back to sleep, so it's been a long day already.  I have a slight headache, most likely from being tired.  There's a good chance I'll fall asleep in my chair.  Let's see shall we?  😴😜

6.44 pm.  No nap, just rested.  Stew is now watching rugby and I'm listening to a True Crime Doco on YouTube with me earphones on.

Looking forward to tomorrow, when we will continue to do NOTHING much.  Hoping it's another nice weather day.

Catch ya tomorrow.