Rain Filled Sky

Visiting Family

   Another wet morning here with the rain falling and very grey skies over the fens, have we had the last of the warm mild weather, along with the rain it's a lot colder this morning.
   We are off to visit family today, yesterday was Yvonne's birthday and we had planned a day off but we had to finish some orders so decided today would be better for us. Yvonne will visit her mum and I'll be taking my auntie out for a trip to a garden centre and the wool shop, she loves her knitting and she is like a kid in a sweet shop when we go there.
   I always look forward to my trips back home to Ashwell, tho the village always seems so quiet it's still home and I always feel I belong there, maybe one day if we win the lotto we can move back among the thatched cottages and little lanes.
   This morning I need to clean and photograph yet more sale beads, I found a basket full of focals so I thought I would carry on listing them in trios or pairs on ebay, the last listings went straight away and they might as well be useful to someone rather than sitting collecting dust. This weekend is the last for the cheaper beads on etsy, All that are still there will be moved to my ebay shop Monday www.stores.ebay.co.uk/Beads-Of-Glass  and the start of the new beads will be listed, it feels great having a fresh start, I guess even with my love for bead making my work still becomes stale after time and as in life we sometimes just need to stop and start again. New beads give you that lift you need and you get that exciting feel back that sometimes goes missing, this last few weeks I've felt like the old Rob, happy to be on my flame for long hours and always wanting to open that kiln in the morning, to be honest with you I would rather be out there in the barn making new beads today as I've got so many ideas, but for gods sake don't tell Yvonne I said that !
   Now I better get out in the barn and sort those beads before I have to brush up for our day out, I wonder if I could get a mobile flame then I could work while Yvonne was driving haha, just a thought. I'll be happy when we return this afternoon and I have some local Hertfordshire faggots to eat, that's my one treat when we go home, I get some to put in the freezer, cold sliced faggot with a salad, now that's what I call a dinner !
  Ok, I'm off to face the rain, I hope you all stay dry and enjoy your day.