A cold day in July.

Today the weather outside is cold, blustery and wet. It reminds me of the summers I endured when I was child in Scotland when a trip to the beach reduced you to blue, goose pimpled misery. I missed Stamford Market today because of conditions outside, which is a pity because I like going to Stamford. It's a beautiful town full of lovely old limestone buildings. I have good neighbours on the stalls around me. On my left is Rainbow, an elegant Chinese lady who sells silk scarves. On my right is Brian who sells second hand records, sorry, I should say collectible records. He specialises in old Blues, R & B and Jazz. He's worth a visit if you have interests in these areas of music. He buys and sells at very fair prices.

So here I am at home. Sharon is in the kitchen working on new designs, the cats are complaining because I've given them,the wrong cat food, and I'm feeling a bit guilty because I've been reading my latest books from Amazon. Time I got on with something useful like writing this blog.

Our Open Studio was an enjoyable event. We mix business with pleasure. That's our style. We like what we sell. We like selling it. We like our customers. Most of them seem to like us. We make a living. We enjoy what we do. That's wonderful! Thank you to everyone who has bought from us!

I feel sorry that so many people don't derive pleasure and satisfaction from what they do for a living. When I did counselling work a few years ago I encountered so many tales of workplace misery that I was quite shocked; so I am so grateful to all our customers who make our very pleasant way of earning our living possible. Incidentally I am considering working as a counsellor again. I'm being prompted by one of our Cambridge customers to do something in this area. More on this soon.

I meant to put up some of Sharon's new designs but need to twiddle around with photos and computers before I can do this. They are in silver and copper and have a lovely warm feel to them. I'll make them visible soon! In the meantime I'll post this.

Phil