The Lucky Ewe @ Oatlands Handmade has re-opened for the Spring 2013 Season at wonderful up-town Oatlands. We are starting to see visitors wandering around guide books in hand, and bags of flour are coming down from the Mill to be put in car boots. The boyz at the Pancake and Crepe Shop next door just haven't stopped all winter and are becoming the "must stop" on the way through to Launceston.
I've decided to pull back the shop a bit this year - it's just been all too hard with what has been a difficult last 6 months : we will miss Graeme so much as he was always about to put out Tilly and Shawn and bring them in at night and the presence of The Shearer sitting in the corner of the shop and chatting to visitors about sheep and wool will be a huge gap almost too much to bear. So I have moved everything around!
Only one room now : all woolly; and my workroom has come upstairs to be part of the business. I can now sit and look out the window past Shawn and spin on the new "vacuum cleaner", my
Ashford Country Spinner 2 wot we bought at Bothwell before Graeme went to hospital. (I had saved up for a Dyson, but the Country Spinner won out and Grum said I could have it - thanks my darling!).
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| Tassie S/F 18.5 micron on left "Winter" from First Edition on right both pun on the vacuum cleaner ! |
