It was marvellous to look out of the bedroom window this morning and see the alpaca cria in the early morning autumn sunshine after four nights in Hendon. It is the most beautiful day although we seem to have a plague of flies in the office. Chas has hoovered them up once but more keep coming.
We have been at the Knitting and Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace in London since Wednesday. It was really busy and by the end of it our stand had been raped by eager knitters. This was just as well as unlike previous years John and his van were not there to take some of the stuff back to Devon. We had to get it all in the car. It was touch and go – one more bag of yarn and we would have been stuffed. To make matters worse the wheel fell off the sack truck John had leant us and we had to carry all the stand stuff to the car. Still it was all very successful and we took more money than ever before.
We went out with Joshua, Matt and Tom on the Thursday evening to a restaurant in an old chocolate factory at the back of Ally Pally in an industrial estate. It was excellent and a lot of fun. The next night we went to a crazy Italian family restaurant in Musewell Hill that was full of kids with a very loud manager who was dancing around like a whirling dervish and giving his waiters hell.