I had the weekly
weigh-in. I say "weekly" - this week I've weighed
myself every day. No more weight has come off. My weight seems to
have stabilised somewhere between fourteen stone and fourteen stone
two pounds. I suspect the key to further weight loss is to do more
exercise. Not keen on that idea(!)
I got my bits and pieces
together; Steve and Sarah arrived and we set off to Shadoxhurst. The
astro club had been asked to run a stall at their fete and dog show.
I'd gone along to help and had taken the "Badger-Original-Landscapes"
stall; the idea being to raise a little cash and to sponsor the
stall.
We arrived, found our
pitch and set up. As luck would have it an old friend from my
scouting days was setting up his photographic stall next to us. Jason
soon arrived, and before long our stall was ready; as was the cake
stall. We had a cuppa and a cake, and started up. The wind was
against us for most of the day, but the sun didn't hide behind too
many clouds. Doing an astronomy demonstration during the daytime has
us rather dependent on the solar scope; after all there's only one
star you can see in daylight. Mind you I did get rather fed up of
explaining that last sentence during the day. "One star -
what is that then?" "The Sun" "I thought
you said star?" "The Sun *is* a star(!)"
"No it's not - it's the Sun". Oh dear - I suppose
that being rather interested in things astronomical one tends to
forget that the general public know diddly-squat about space things.
Before long more club
members arrived, and the telescopes were doing a roaring trade. It
was a lovely day to be out in the sunshine. We sampled the wares of
the home made ice cream stall, saw the hawk and the llama, and even
looked at the beer tent. In years gone by I would have probably based
myself there. Not any more.
All too soon the
afternoon was over and it was time to pack up. As a club we'd had a
successful day - a lot of interested people. A lot of people who
didn't know about the club who now do. From a personal and mercenary
point of view the day wasn't a success - I had hoped to sponsor the
stall from the profits of the sales of paintings. I didn't sell
anything. But then I had been watching the other stalls. Cakes and
ice creams had been selling, but the photographs hadn't, not had the
bicycle parts or the home made cushions. And the dog accessories
stall hadn't really done a roaring trade either.
Home, and then round to
the Fudgery for tea. We had a couple of beers, a smashing bit of tea,
and spent the evening watching films and chatting and dozing before
staggering home shortly after midnight. A really good evening - must
do it again...
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