I did another frozen seven hour stretch at an outdoor market yesterday and another seven hour indoor market today. Despite last weekend being busy and selling heaps, this weekend was so quiet. Does anybody know where all the Christmas shoppers were this weekend?!
I'm feeling a bit down about sacrificing a whole weekend for nowt, so I thought I'd share something that recently made me laugh.
I originally saw this on Have I got News for You a couple of weeks ago, and I looked up the source tonight. Some very funny things on his website! Anyway, it is a series of emails between a man and a company pursuing an overdue bill... You might have already seen it as I guess it was really popular, but as I only really talk to Jamie and Maia (and occassionally Steven), no one told me about it.
She rejects the spider in lieu of payment so he asks for her to return the drawing...
When we were having the ridiculous problems with Scottish Gas and Scottish Power, I wish I had done something like this!
Bet you're scratching your head and thinking, "What's with her and all this bird stuff?" I admit, birds are all over this blog, namely in the coats I've been making in the last couple of weeks. These thematic obsessions pop up in my stash without me noticing. One day when I'm staring at the tower of fabric, I see that there's heaps of bird stuff. Go figure, I don't even like birds very much. 
No inner fleece layer for this one (I couldn't bear it) and it has a hood instead of a peter pan collar. 
I modified the elf hood to more of a pixie hood, it's slightly more fitted so it's not as dangerous! 
A life-size, rideable, interactive baby dinosaur. Nevermind where you'd put it.
Look how smug these kids look. It probably because their parents are driving around in a ten year old, beat up minivan. Or maybe that's just us.
'In the Night Garden Upsy Daisy and her Chase and Play Bed' I'm having enough trouble keeping Jamie in his bed without a toy glorifying the chase / bed dichotomy. I suppose the saving grace of this gift is that it is the bed that is being chased, not the toy. Bit like getting your toilet training toddler a doll that needs the loo but the toilet won't stop moving so they have to go in their pants.
'Don't wake Dad!' I'm all for this as a mantra, but as a game? Here is the spec: "Will you wake dad and get sent back to bed or will you successfully tip-toe around... Take care as there are hazards" Was this game manufactured by Jamie Inc?! I can tell you, we are living in this game and it's not a fun 'un. 
'Puppy Grows and Knows Your Name' Watching the commercial for this puppy, you see the puppy getting bigger, learning tricks, wagging it's tail and you think 'Hmm, that's not too bad, it's teaching kids a sanitised version of dog ownership... the growing, the learning, the moving..." And then the dog turns its flat button eyes to camera and says "My name is Satan". Or something similar, I repressed the memory.
'Baby Born Baby, Horse, Car and Trailer' There are lots of baby dolls offering 'realistic' functions... they eat, and pee, blink, sleep, learn to talk, sit in buggies, you can comb their hair, and dress them, change their nappies. These babies do almost all the things your baby might. Childcare professionals suggest that if your trying to get a toddler used to the idea that a sibling is on the way, get them a toy baby. But don't get them this baby. This one drives a car (pulling a horse trailer no less), dressed in her finest riding gear, and then rides an actual moving horse. Later, baby goes for an un-aided swim. And drives a motorboat. Guaranteed to give your toddler sleepless nights and an inferiority complex as he worries about the freaky addition to the family, who not only will be lavished with expensive accoutrements like cars, boats and horses, but will be also be capable of superhuman feats when he can't even put his underwear on the right way round.
