Driving Tests, Craft Fairs, Doctor Who and New Bathrooms!

Ooh...so much to catch up on since I wrote the last blog...serves me right really for not having prioritised!

Well first came my driving test, I realise that as you are reading this you are thinking that I must be incredibly young as I am not yet driving...well I'm thirty four and I realise that most people will have gone through this rite of passage that most experience in their teens but not me. I never got round to it as a teenager, then came uni when I never had the money for the lessons and then I worked on cruise ships for 7 years. There is very little use for the ability to drive when you are sailing round the world and on my leave there was never enough time for lessons. Then I met my husband (soon to become long suffering husband, LSH) who tried to teach me to drive and discovered the new manoeuvre ' the foetal position' which involved me panicking, and lifting my hands and feet up until I was in the foetal position...strangely LSH decided not to continue our lessons! Then we moved to NZ and I promised LSH that I would learn to drive but there was a train station at the bottom of the hill where we lived in Ngaio and train fares were so low it was silly not to use it!

Anyway, we come back to the UK and suddenly I realise I can't put it off any longer and start lessons with Sabreena from Relax Driving School (who I would like to say I would recommend to everyone), she is brilliant but unfortunately unable to give me the magic words that will create calm and tranquillity in my head and I failed, have I mentioned I hate roundabouts?

So next came the New Milton Craft Fair, it was quieter than the one in May that we did but still a good day, what was wonderful was a lady who had bought a dress for her daughter, Esther, had returned and bought a second dress from me. For all of the rain that fell that day though I have to say it is always a delight to meet the other stallholders, especially Michelle from MW Jewellery, her mum was helping out that day and her wit and sarcasm knew no bounds which was highly entertaining especially when she was revealing Michelle's secrets!

...and so we reach this morning, I had the Baby and Children's market this afternoon but yesterday I had started playing about with new fabrics for the baby booties we make. When LSH returned from work they were thrust under his nose as he walked in from work! I had expected a placatory 'very nice' but instead got a 'wow, they're fantastic'.

And so began a frantic Bootie session!

I have now learned the lesson that you do not leave things until the last minute because unfortunately life doesn't take into account that you are busy. My son felt it was of utmost importance that his Doctor Who Monster Invasion cards had to be logged into his account this morning, so he sat next to me while I sewed and he typed in his cards. Then the phone rang to say our new bathroom suite was arriving in 20 minutes, my daughter wanted a drink, LSH asked if I could possibly get him a plaster, I got up from my sewing machine to find large amounts of blood dripping from LSH's finger. The doorbell went, it was the bathroom suite and I burst in to flames...oh no I didn't...just felt like it!

Anyway, booties were finished, LSH made the Sprogs their lunch and I got to the market on time...oh and did I mention I hate roundabouts?