Fab Friday Frolics and Super Saturday at the Buttercross

Friday morning was spent making lots more cards like these ...

All sold

  

... and painting, lining and waxing this old cutlery box ...

Sold

... and frantically assembling stock for the Buttercross Vintage Market the following day.


At one o'clock, Mr VJ told her to stop ... he was taking her out for lunch!  
They went to the Brown & Forrest Smokery Restaurant at nearby Hambridge.   A great place to go for a very reasonable lunch.  The convivial atmosphere and red gingham tablecloths give a slightly French feel to it.

She felt guilty ... so many jobs to do at home.

The menu always includes a soup and a couple of starters, three or four smoked mains with garlic potatoes and an ‘interesting’ salad, and proper puds or smoked cheese, along with a great selection of cakes.  Mr went for the smoked chicken whilst VJ opted for the oak smoked goose and plum sausages.  Also on offer was hot smoked trout or eel.

Photo taken from Smokery website

A chilled glass of Sauvignon to complement and she felt guilty no more.  She was happy to be playing truant ... washing can wait, a little more dust can settle!  
To finish they shared a sticky chocolate brownie with rich vanilla ice cream.

Lunch over, they were reluctant to head back home and decided to detour to Barrington Court instead. 

On the way they stopped to look at the amazing light on this rapeseed field.  Dramatic stormy cloud all around with the sun just breaking through a chink in the sky and casting a pool of light on this one field.  

She has a love/hate relationship with these vibrant fields.  The golden flowers that brighten the countryside make her nose sniffy and eyes itchy.

At Barrington the kitchen garden is full of promise.  
Neat rows of seedlings and newly tilled earth.

After a wander in the weak sun, they headed back home, 
stopping briefly to view a local auction on the way.  
A Fab Friday.

Up bright and early on Saturday and off to the lovely little town of Somerton for the Buttercross Market.  WOW, what a day.  VJ was rushed off her feet … and got into quite a flap ... thanks Mr Crooked House for your help!  Thank you Mary for organising.

Lovely customers, lovely stallholders, lovely food.  Two rooms of delights plus a few brave souls with stalls outside ... hope you warmed up by the time you reached home Lizzie!  No time to take photos of any stalls but her own!  Isabelle of Suzy's Vintage Attic visited and has done a great little write-up here.

Can’t wait for the next one.  Saturday 8^th September … put it in your diaries.  

A Super Saturday!

Soggy Sunday ... long bath, board games, DVD, popcorn ... nuff said!