As already reported by Mrs Croak, we had a rendez-vous at Manchester Picadilly before drifting (as much as we could in the hoards) round the craft fair. Other favourites were Rachel Eardley's jewellery made of defunct coins, Faye Power's birdie crockery (especially the pheasant tea pot!) and Cathy Miles' wire sculptures - birds in a cage having a tea party!). Lots of lovely stuff and looking forward to finding 2 nice square frames for my Ruth Green cards. Town was typically manic so myself and country mouse did not linger too long anywhere- just a peruse, then lurked at the station for short time till my train and collected my tickets for the Carlisle jaunt!
After a rest, a brew, a beer and Strictly it was back into town to a new restaurant with food from the 11 more Southern states of America (situated right next to where craft fair had been - typical!) suggested by our friends. Lots of BBQ, ribs and deep-fried pickles! I had ribs that can see here and were good but BIG! There was an extra dish of the spicy sweet sauce and a pastry brush to slather it on with. We ordered a bit too much - the cornbread was step too far and was taken home by one of our party to the hilarity of everyone else. No way could any of us manage dessert!
Sunday we did bit of clearing out, tip trip and some relocation of wires at the house (started a little late in the day really as had to have the light circuits off to do it so had to complete final stage by torch!). Day ended with Downton scandals and reduced (and therefore even more delicious) Gu choc souffles mmmmmmmm
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