Town and Country

[bugshaw]

That was a lot of low tech fun! Partly the strangeness of seeing sheep and chickens on Parker's Piece, and the Guinea Pig Village which was a small hut with a queue outside, and inside two rows of people sitting very quietly each holding a guinea pig. The people were so still, no chatting or larking about, I wonder if the guinea pigs were exerting some sort of mind control on them. The Sheep Show was entertaining and informative, we only caught the end of it (shearing - "I'm doing a special offer later, 50p for bikini lines"), as with the knights - finally spotting something was going on in their enclosure, to find a field strewn with dead bodies and the last two iron-clad chaps having it out with Big Swords. Would it be wrong to go back with fridge magnets? beckyc jumped off a 70ft scaffold tower the Paras had erected; I plead dodgy joints. Also being so much of a chicken I should be in one of the hutches on the other side of the park.

"Clean Dad's lace" has made it to near the top of my To Do list; some of it he made, some he collected, there's a good double handful, some of it is quite browned and it all smells of cigarette smoke. But looking here, I see there is more to it than "hand wash with mild soap flakes and dry flat". Hmm...

Comments

[saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com]

If you do decide to clean it yourself, loosely stitch each piece to a clean piece of cloth so that any weak threads don't pull lose during the process. Make sure that your cleaning product(s) are as mild, and scent and chemical free as possible. Good Luck
The fair sounded like fun.

[techiebabe.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have liked the being up 70ft let alone the jumping.

I am confused about the rows of people calmly holding guinea pigs - were they on show?

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

The guinea pigs were - demonstration models? Queue up for a chance to hold one for a bit. Not as exciting as a Tunnel of Goats :-)

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

Yes, "exciting" is hardly a word to be applied to guinea pigs -- they're remarkably timid & skittish animals, and the people petting them presumably were Warned (in no uncertain terms) to be quiet and make no sudden moves.

[beckyc.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have liked the being up 70ft let alone the jumping.

When you're up really scarily high then doing the nice safe jumping is generally the fastest way of getting out of the situation ;-).

70 foot isn't really so bad btw.

[dorispossum.livejournal.com]

Did you see the ferret race?

the suffolk punches were my favourite - i LOVE those horses, and these ones had beautifully dressed manes and tales for the occasion.

and the llama was good...

all in all, a good day - we topped it off at the new incarnation of the devonshire arms.
:)

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

We saw a cage with connected tubes which I suspect was the ferret race, but no ferrets. Llama! Baby goats! Ducks in a hutch! Estate agents!!??

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Wow! That's seriously complex. Sounds like your absolute first move is to check that you're storing it in acid free conditions so that it doesn't deteoriate further.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Like this cheap cardboard box. Um, no.... I see some of it has gone brittle at the edges, too. Triage time!