Harvest Festival Time 2011

Sunday was the last day of

Somerset Art Weeks.

I had the feeling it wasn't as good as previous events

But I've sat down since and done the sums.

Last year over the two week event we sold 104 pots

this year we sold 124.

but the sales value was only 4% up.

Having been a contracts manager for 20 odd years

you never get away from analysing figures and working out

where you are compared to last year.

We sold more pots but they were all lower value items.

Overall we are doing very well this year

despite the doom and gloom merchants on the telly,

I feel as if I'm living in a parallel universe.

These pots came out of the kiln on Monday

to replenish some of the stock.

Last Saturday was Ilminster carnival,

the weather was great.

what was nice was that we both got a cheese burger and chips and

sat in a shop doorway eating them, while people who were sat

in a swanky restaurant on the first floor looked down

at us with envy as they waited for their meal. 

 The floats were amazing this year.

 These guys were on stilts.

 The streets were packed and the floats lit up the whole street.

 afterwards we popped up to our mates in the

Duke of York Pub

Ron & Sarah Philbeck
 had a meal in here when they came over

a couple of years ago.

They had a band on and it was a bit of a do. 

I didn't ask this chap how he got these bunny ears

but there were plenty of ladies around boogieing to the band. 

This is my harvest jug for 2011

with script taken from a Michael Cardew Jug.

This week seems to have flown bye.

I had to take the afternoon out on Wednesday

and I went to bed for 3 hours I was just exhausted.

But I feel great again now.