Another Wet Bank Holiday

Not a lot of progress has been made with weaving or spinning this week.  I did have a visit to Cathy of Lazy Kate, Ormskirk, who is going to get some more bobbins made for my spinning wheel as well as organise someone to do a small running repair- so the spinning is on hold.   Because I’m waiting for the new bobbins, the weaving is also on hold – I need to ply some very fine wool to use on the loom.    I finally remounted the patchwork picture though.

On Thursday, I went to see the exhibition put on by the final year students on the JMU Fine Arts Course, some really interesting pieces, everyone seemed to have worked very hard.

 

 

Our daughter came on a visit from Holland, where she lives and so I spent some time with her and persuaded her to pose for a photo in the tunic I made a few weeks ago.

On Saturday we went to Lark Lane for the monthly Calidad Craft and Gift Fair – a bit quiet this time –probably because the weather was so good and a lot of people had gone into Liverpool for the Battle of the Atlantic Commemoration Celebrations.    The same probably applied to Sunday when we were at the Vintage Fair at the Chapel Gallery, Ormskirk, which again was quieter than we’d hoped.   It was a shame really, there was some really good ‘stuff’ at both and, as usual, the stallholders (and the customers) were an interesting lot!

On Bank Holiday Monday, we set out to see Maghull Wind Orchestra who were playing at Chevasse Park, Liverpool One, as part of the Battle of the Atlantic Event – we took our picnic so that we could spend time, afterwards,  looking at all the ships at the Albert Dock and Pier Head.   Oh dear!    we managed to stay for the first set of MWO’s performance (which was, as usual, excellent) but, despite the free umbrellas handed out, we were soaked, frozen, bedraggled and thoroughly despondent by the interval and admitted defeat and ate our picnic on the train home!   

Tuesday, was not a lot better – we had arranged to go to the Wirral again to photograph the flotilla of ships leave the Mersey.    You guessed it!   It rained, mightily, and though we did take some photos they were predictably disappointing – of course, all the ships were grey and almost disappeared into the grey light- I may be able to wring some contrast out of one or two but I’m not too optimistic.  I thought the light was bad for the Queen Mary but this really was grim.