Thursday, June 07, 2007

And the Good Lord (or possibly the small god of stallholders)

Looked down from on high and saith

"today, we will tempt Mig Bardsley a little further along the road towards Mammon"

Thus it did not rain, neither was it cold and windy. And many passers by stopped, looked, said extremely nice things, smiled pleasantly and walked on by to the other side of the aisles to buy cheap tat from another stall (but woman cannot live on nice comments alone, however encouraging and heart-warming they may be and a bit of bread wouldn't come amiss)

And one or two good Samaritans purchased very small items and chatted for ages about the pictures they and their spouses and children liked to take

Yeay! And in one case those taken by a friend or colleague (I forget which)

And the daughter and friend of the daughter of Mig Bardsley came and said

"the stall looks better than last week" and the friend of the daughter of Mig Bardsley bought two cards (and a pork roll for which thanks and praise be given - it was a very good pork roll)

And the companions in commerce of Mig Bardsley came and looked at the wares she had set out and said

"Those are very beautiful pictures. What a shame you haven't sold more. It's been a bad day for all of us too". (didn't I hear something like this last week)

And the kindly neighbour of Mig Bardsley said

"You should take a stall on the Portobello Road in London, where, on a Saturday, a host of people will come and they shall be more discerning than those few people of Oxford and they will spend great sums of money on your beautiful pictures"

And Mig Bardsley took the great sum of £12.50 which is not quite as much as the cost of hiring a stall which is £13.15 but is £9.25 more than last week and all of which is quite small

And the lovely Eddie said

"do you want to come back next week?"

And Mig Bardsley was tempted and said

"Er, Yes".

Oh! Did I? Oh, ok. Well I suppose I will then, seeing as how Eddie is going to put my name on a space (2nd row, third from the end) and all. All I can say is, if the good Lord sendeth not a great horde of discerning people and a few rays of sunshine next week, I may sleep in, the week after. 5 am is not my kind of time of day! In fact, unless it has dawn rays of light shimmering along the edges of trees and hills and things I don't consider it a time of day at all!

And Mammon, you know, I bet he's not such a bad guy if you get to know him. I would like to get to know him just a little bit. Next Thursday for preference.


Views from under a canvas awning are beginning to pall. I don't like to take pictures of the punters. Somehow I feel they might not feel welcomed by a camera pointing at them as they approach.
So here are some more of the canal holiday, for instance, two lovely ladies making the best of the bad weather while we were trying to empty a lock which was filling up busily behind them (the water's not supposed to pour over the top of the gates like that!)


The advantages of being slow and a long way behind the others is you get shots like this of them being blown around on a hill-top
The geese really hoped we had some more stale bread

and next door's boat cat had a great deal to say to our boat dog - through the window. I don't think he understood all the words she was using, he's a bit of an innocent when it comes to swearing cats. Our cats tend to say very simple things to him, like "take that" and "slap" and "mine! Piss off" and occasionally "oh I'm not hungry, you have it (you stupid non-cat person, you won't know what to do with it anyway)"

Now I'm going to continue recovering from getting up at 5 am. At least it seems to be day time now.

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6 comments:

At 12:20 AM, Blogger I, Like The View said...

oh oh oh

:-(

it must get better than this, or else noone would do it? do we need to knit new thinking caps. . .

will this weeks punters come back next week and but the things that they didn't purchase this week and then came to regret? what did The Beep think? he wrote once that somone once asked about a photo he'd taken of some Oxford punts or some other kind of boat. . .

bookshops? I buy lots of cards in bookshops. . .

this isn't helping, is it?

hope you get some rest and recuperate

chin up!

(then, as I always think, get the tweezers out and pluck!)

 
At 7:52 PM, Blogger mig bardsley said...

It is helping :)
I'm laughing over the plucking. Pluck out the grey pictures!

(Had a request for cats...I must get out all my pussy pictures and if anyone laughs at that...

...well...right then. Cat and dog pictures. Bunnies, horses, birds. All that sort of stuff. And some one pointed out that flowers sell. OK. Flowers it is.
Oh golly. More hours of sticking and stuff!

 
At 11:57 AM, Blogger frangelita said...

The stall did look good:o)

 
At 2:42 PM, Blogger Mel said...

*checking chin*

:-/

But you're going back and you're learning bunches?
Gosh...what's WRONG with those people?!

I never leave flea markets without something. You need more people like me. LOL

I'd say 'chin up', but now it was already taken.

(Mr. Goosey looks a bit miffed about the lack of bread, btw.)

 
At 10:32 PM, Blogger I, Like The View said...

what about the brilliant raining cats and dogs that you did for me once?

would have been very suitable for the show that was cancelled, not that that would have been any use!

:-)

(and not laughing at pussy pictures and this talk of plucking makes me think of how many times my stat counter shows google searches for that grey pubes post I did a while back!)

 
At 1:29 AM, Blogger mig bardsley said...

The chin is of the round and multiple variety Mel so I'm sure it's as up as it can be but you couldn't tell :)
I wish all the people were like you :)

It's still nice of you to say so Fran :)

I've been looking for old pictures, such as raining cats and dogs I and also the raining roses. And a fantasy type thing with a church tower and some other stuff I'm sure I posted ages ago.
But it was sunny this afternoon and I went out. Took a bit longer than I meant!

And it's supposed to be sunny tomorrow...I wonder if I could get up really early...
Hmm. *resolutely ignoring watch, blog-clock, computer-clock, mobile phone and all other time keeping appliances*
Hmm

 

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