Onslow Park Steam Fair

We are busy getting ready for the Onslow Park Steam Rally this weekend.

We are going early on Saturday morning all being well-the show starts on Sunday but its such a great atmosphere there and we have lots of friends to catch up with, we are going early.

It will give us chance to set up our stand and sort the caravan out too--we have decided we dont need the awning as we didnt bother to put it up last week when we were at Tern Valley, not taking any more stuff this week so we are leaving that behind.

If its as busy as last year Bill wont get chance to go and see everything he wants--my stand is 25 ft long and its immpossible to keep an eye on everything when its busy, so I ended up ringing him and asking him to come back every time he went wandering last year!

I shall be demonstrating the encaustic art and also the oils and acrylics too, so I will be kept busy while Im there.

Bill has re-organised all the plastic boxes we lug the bits and pieces around in to the various craft fairs, and found we needed some new ones so we went into town yesterday and replaced the broken ones.

Its been a real spring clean--everything is in the right place for now-hes even made some bubble wrap bags for the lights!

How long it will last for though is any ones guess!

It will only want a cold rainy day when we are packing away after a craft market for it all to get thrown in the nearest box that it will fit in!

My sister in law Jan and my niece are coming to parrot /cat/fish/ sit again--Jake learned lots of new words last week when they were here-he seems to pick up peoples laughs right away and hes been doing Jans and Natalies laugh as clear as a bell all week!