Friday 21st August

On Monday after a busy weekend in Chesterfield I decided to tackle the text on the “A” boards I had painted last week. I had a large white chalk pen and had worked out the wording but writing reasonably neatly on 8 sides of A board is not as easy as it sounds. It took me a couple of hours but it’s another thing I can tick off my list for AITG. 

The rest of the week followed doing jobs I could tick off my list:

• Putting up my posters around the village and Dunstan Steads.

• Posting the event on Facebook and Instagram 

• Cutting and writing some labels

• Bringing all the smaller work together from my shelves, boxes and party shed. Checking and re-packing.

• Sorting through all my shelves to see what larger work I had. Opening and re-packing. 

• Arranging my Public Liability Insurance. Printing the certificate and laminating it. 

• Mounting and cello wrapping some watercolour paintings

• Creating some vouchers redeemable at AITG for raffle prizes for next Thursdays quiz. 

• Arranging a final meeting with Chris, the pub owner to go through the final plans for next week.

• Checking through my crate of set up materials such as table cloths, pegs, tape, chord, stands, lights, banners and bunting

• Buying a pop up gazebo for extra space

All this stuff takes time. Together with daily chores like dog walking, cooking, buying a house and a car, preparing for a house inspection on Wednesday, the lists go on….There’s still a few things to do but by the end of today (Friday) I will have done about as much preparation as I can until set up next week. It’s sort of out of my hands for now. I’m mentally exhausted and hope it will be worth it…it’s lucky I don’t have a proper job!!