Tired …

I’ll start with an addendum to the last blog. I’ve had a small peak in book sales. Not big, but a couple of books a day – and some consistency. That may well stop tomorrow (I’ve sold 2 books today), alternatively … who knows. Those of you who read this drivel week in, week out, know that 10 books a day would be a sensible figure. In term of wages, I think we’d be talking about £5/6K a year with that number, which would be a nice fillip.

Anyhow, just got back from Jen’s. That’s three days and two nights. And we’re popping up tomorrow as well. We’ve slept on the sitting room floor and C cooked for us all. There’s been a lot to do, and orders keep coming in. By chance, as we went to Jen’s local arts and craft shop to ask if we could position ourselves there (yes – a small display unit for £10 a month – no other fees – from January), there was the local crochet club doing their, well, crocheting. I sort of mentioned that we might be looking for gig workers from the New Year, showed them the product (great excitement all round), and low and behold we had at least one woman – who had just started a sewing course – who’d like to join us. I think finding more will be straight forward. Our ambition would be to contract out ‘making things’ for a fixed fee. Sounds like a cottage industry in the making. Fab.

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Cubbly’s shop floor

And we could have a stall at the Birmingham NEC dog show in December. Apparently there are tens of thousands of visitors. Mmmm … better get sewing.

I think that’s about it for me today. We are both a bit shattered. I would love to talk about Trump’s letter about Saudi Arabia, about Ivanka’s emails, about Trumps denigration of the Marine’s special forces general who oversaw the attack which took out OBL, about the disaster that is Brexit (actually, whilst I wholly disagree with the notion, you have to take your hat off to Theresa May who has been immovable against a huge onslaught – good effort), about so much else, but I haven’t there energy.

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on the sofa after a hard day at the office…

So, signing off!