Vote vote vote!

I was very excited yesterday to hear from Etsy admin that my little vampire meerkat had been selected for the Halloween Voter!



This is what the voting page looks like right now, as you can see I'm in 5th place with a lot of catching up to do - please vote for me :-)

Tenterden Folk Festival next weekend!

We picked up the programme for next weekend's fair yesterday and flipped through excitedly to see my name in print!



Shutting the programme, I noticed an ad on the back for our local steam railoway. "Oh look, there's a photo of the Morris dancers I blogged about a while back."

Then I looked more closely:



and more closely still:



Yes - it's Mr Nifty and I sharing a "moment"!

If you're in the area, my stall is upstairs in the Town Hall - discount to anyone who claims to know me through blog / twitter / facebook /wherever!

Needled to death

A few weeks ago my daughter found an abandoned book on the train - and when she read the title she just knew it was destined to be mine!



I'd never come across the writer before but I'm totally impressed by her ingenuity - not only is it a crime story (big market!) but it's a crime story wrapped around KNITTERS! So she's cornering a niche market - well done Maggie Sefton!

After visiting her website I discovered she's even more clever than I'd suspected. Not only does she write Knitting Yarns (sorry), she also has a series of Estate Agent stories. Whatever next?

Red Alert!

"Red Alert! There isn't enough ribbon left for a replacement crew - set scanners to max!"

It was a meerkat emergency - I had exhausted the stock of ranking ribbon, and the local shop wasn't able to re-order. What to do?

Luckily, Captain Kirk was able to twiddle the knob on his communicator until he picked up some vibes from Overspill ... and we sent her an arm. (Well, we always thought that particular crewman was 'h'armless)



Armed with the arm, our trusty crewmate set off across the galaxy went to the wholesalers and came back with a very close match.



Logically, this means there will still be Meertrekkies for sale :-)

For customer service you can do no better than to try Overspill and her sister-shops. Live long and prosper, Cal!

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Visual DNA

With thanks to Biljana, on whose blog I first saw this. Not sure how well it's caught me...



This is supposed to be about "friends" but I was just thinking about my husband.



And in this one - those beers were for just the two of us! Style? Me? I don't think so. Function rules!



Pampered? They think I'm pampered cos I like bubble baths?



It's true I do like an open road - but not in the car. I love the great outdoors, but I would rather walk, thanks.

Have you met Thomas?

Cos I did - this weekend!

Diverse Kent fauna!

Walking in Kent in September we expected to see pheasants - and weren't disappointed.



What we didn't expect were alpacas. We visited an alpaca farm a while back, but this was yet another Kent alpaca farm.



Loving the babies - they're called crias - and the fabulous hairstyles!



I hadn't realised alpacas could be grey.