I spend quite a bit of
time in my living room at the moment. At various odd hours. I seem to
spend a lot of that time listening to next door alternatively
spending hours playing dull scales on their piano, or hammering away
on their DIY projects. I'm not complaining; because I dare not.
I would just make the
observation that it's odd that they have no problem in playing the
piano loudly for hours on end. And it is fine for them to spend hours
banging, hammering and drilling. But they put a letter of complaint
through our letterbox because we tapped the skirting board too loudly
when we were sweeping up.
I turned on the pond's
filtration system this morning after the winter's hibernation.
Ideally it would have gone on some time ago, but it's been too cold
this year; and it's got to the point where I feel I can't leave it
much longer. Mind you, with the overgrowth of shrubbery from one side
of the garden, and dogs continually barking on the other, the pond
isn't the peaceful place it once was. I've half a mind to drain it,
take the fish to a lake I know at Dering Farm and be done with it.
Perhaps I should stop
being so negative....
To work, via the farm
shop for super-cheap (and high quality) apples, and then I
stopped off at Dunelm Mill to pick up some small canvases. If I'm
going to make a go of craft fairs (and I think I'd like to),
then I can't help but feel that small canvases is the way forward. If
someone wants a big painting then I've got a web site and word of
mouth to drum up trade. But it's going to be a rare punter who's got
more than a fiver in petty cash to squander. yesterday I noticed that
he stalls selling things were stall selling cheap things. And there's
a clear lower limit for the prices of my paintings if I intend not to
just give them away.
So I'm going to stock up
on the sort of thing that people will be able to buy with the cash
that's in their pockets and tout those at craft fairs. Small,
colourful ones. Ideal gifts for Grandma or for an aunt. I'll still do
bigger paintings, but they will be more on a commission basis. Or
that's the plan today. I expect the plan will change. It usually
does.
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