Oh yoo-hoo! Good afternoon, how are you? Is life treating you well? Come and have a seat at the table and we shall have a cup of tea – or coffee – whilst keeping the world’s biscuit supply under control. Someone has to eat them so it might as well be us… I think these might be healthy; they have oats in them…
Here are the latest shenanigans from the Little Houses…
Living on the Edge 226; The Only Way is Up…
To say that the inhabitants of Driftwood Point lived precariously was to understate the facts. It was incredibly beautiful but, with that beauty, came very real danger. Only the brave lived there with good, strong core strength and a love of the raw outdoors.
The Three Sisters: Gerda; Melanie and Krista, now in their second century, had climbed as youngsters. They were not natural athletes and had clambered for months. The air was thin, their breaths short and shallow and every piece of them had ached like a song with only high notes. The decision to stay exactly where they were was an easy one to make. None of them relished the idea of putting themselves through any further struggle. Besides which, Gerda had come to realise that she wasn’t fond of heights. Even today, she occasionally suffers with dizzy spells.
A few decades later they were joined by Keith who’d felt the need to prove himself by adventuring right to the summit. Well, he almost reached the summit but settled a little beneath it and put down some strong roots there instead. He hadn’t inched his way up, as the sisters had done, but had stridden upwards, grimacing as he completed his ascent in a week. From his vantage point all he could see was sky and that suited him down to the ground. He learned the latest news from the visiting birds but what could he do about the world and its problems? He created as little waste as possible and his daily task was to take his needle and thread to the sky, mending the ozone layer.
Greg and Isambard stood close together at the foot of the mountain and looked up, contemplating their next move… Did they have what it took to join this tiny community? Isambard was doubtful. He’d forgotten the sandwiches and hadn’t plucked up the courage to tell Greg yet… xxx
1.The beautiful Llantarnam Grange Craft Festival: Award Winners Exhibition continues, it’s on until August 10th 2024.
2. My Open Studio is inching ever closer… It’s the weekend of June 15th/16th and June 29th/30th. Do pop in if you can…
3. I’m going to leave the door to my online shop ajar later this afternoon if you wish to browse. I have a little bit of faffing to do first but I reckon it’ll be open by 5pm (UK time)…
Have a fabulous weekend xxx