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Mar. 15th, 2026 02:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
turpsHappy Mother's Day to all that celebrate today. I got a lovely text from Corey saying he'd phone on his way home from work. Which is thankfully around 8 today and not late shift bar closing hours.
It was the Consett Cats craft fair yesterday. I knew going in we wouldn't make any money due to the location, and that's exactly what happened. But what I did do was get to talk to many other adopters, give some money to the rescue from items that did sell, and come home with a Consett Cat tote bag and a ridiculous amount of baked goods and cake. Even more cake than I planned as I was talking to one of the bakers at the end of the afternoon and she asked if I wanted to take three leftover cupcakes, and really, how could I say no?
There was also an Easter egg drive in the run up to the fair, with the donated eggs being put in brown bags and sealed up for a lucky wheel spin. At first they used the wheel correctly, but they'd had so many eggs donated by the end of the fair anyone spinning the wheel won an egg no matter if it landed on win or lose. At £2 a spin I got the eggs I need for the nieces and nephews, and maybe a spare for myself.
There was another good thing, the lady on the table next to us was a professional shopper for M&S for her day job and she was giving us tips on stall product placement and most interesting, the new trends coming in. Apparently, it's going to be tissue box covers, decorative trays that hold candles etc that can sit on coffee tables, wooden bangles and hare decorations. Now, most of those James can do, maybe not the bangles, but the rest, yeah. So, I think he's going to try for some of those for the next fair, which is this coming Saturday.
I enjoyed the season finale of Star Trek Academy, and am glad that season two has not only already being announced, but shown as wrapped via an Insta video from Karim Diane. It really has been my favourite new show recently, and there's not a character I don't like.
I've also watched the last ep of Call the Midwife, and what a bittersweet episode it was. The show did lose it's way a little at times, and was often the Dr Turner show, but I did enjoy it and will be watching the film and prequel show while waiting for season 16 to eventually be show, which will be a while from what the show creatorshave stated.
It was the Consett Cats craft fair yesterday. I knew going in we wouldn't make any money due to the location, and that's exactly what happened. But what I did do was get to talk to many other adopters, give some money to the rescue from items that did sell, and come home with a Consett Cat tote bag and a ridiculous amount of baked goods and cake. Even more cake than I planned as I was talking to one of the bakers at the end of the afternoon and she asked if I wanted to take three leftover cupcakes, and really, how could I say no?
There was also an Easter egg drive in the run up to the fair, with the donated eggs being put in brown bags and sealed up for a lucky wheel spin. At first they used the wheel correctly, but they'd had so many eggs donated by the end of the fair anyone spinning the wheel won an egg no matter if it landed on win or lose. At £2 a spin I got the eggs I need for the nieces and nephews, and maybe a spare for myself.
There was another good thing, the lady on the table next to us was a professional shopper for M&S for her day job and she was giving us tips on stall product placement and most interesting, the new trends coming in. Apparently, it's going to be tissue box covers, decorative trays that hold candles etc that can sit on coffee tables, wooden bangles and hare decorations. Now, most of those James can do, maybe not the bangles, but the rest, yeah. So, I think he's going to try for some of those for the next fair, which is this coming Saturday.
I enjoyed the season finale of Star Trek Academy, and am glad that season two has not only already being announced, but shown as wrapped via an Insta video from Karim Diane. It really has been my favourite new show recently, and there's not a character I don't like.
I've also watched the last ep of Call the Midwife, and what a bittersweet episode it was. The show did lose it's way a little at times, and was often the Dr Turner show, but I did enjoy it and will be watching the film and prequel show while waiting for season 16 to eventually be show, which will be a while from what the show creatorshave stated.
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Date: 2026-03-15 08:18 pm (UTC)Sounds like you'd a nice time at the fair even if you didn't make much money from it. And no, of course you couldn't say no to leftover cupcakes!!
Tissue box covers? Really? Trends are so strange! But good luck to James trying to cash in on the latest!
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Date: 2026-03-16 07:28 am (UTC)It was a nice time at the fair, especially so as we went in knowing it was highly unlikely we'd make any profit. The leftover cupcakes were so tasty, especially for free *g*
Trends really are strange. Last year it was all about highland cows, now hares. I mean, what even drives these things? I'll never understand,
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Date: 2026-03-16 01:52 am (UTC)sorry James didn't make any cash, but hopefully he can create a few of those ideas (I like the idea of the trays) which will be good sellers.
it's nice you ended up with cake!
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Date: 2026-03-16 07:25 am (UTC)The trays were my favourite idea, too. Though, I must admit, if I had one it would probably end up as an odds and ends collection place as well as a candleholder.
The cake was delicious!
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Date: 2026-03-16 04:21 pm (UTC)I really like Star Trek Academy. I agree, they have a great set of characters.
Of the bad, I'm a bit sick of them calling 10 episodes a season. Ten eps is more like a mini-series. A season used to generally be 24 episodes, at least until COVID. And what's so bad about it? The behind-the-scenes crew from camera people, props people, food people, set people, wardrobe people, tech people, production people, and just the random cast people who fill out scenes, cannot support themselves working only 10 episodes per year. When shows had 24 eps, the same people could have that as their one annual job. Now, they're having to try to fill in the rest of their time with other side gigs. If they're going to insist that 10 eps is a 'season,' then I wish they'd produce 2 'seasons' per year. /RANT