Part one
All together now!
“Didn’t we have a loverly time the weekend we went to Padstow!”
We arrived on Thursday afternoon and set up the morsbags stand in “our” corner of the food tent. This year the committee had treated the food sellers to a lovely new shiny tent, bigger than last year, and we were pleased to hear that it was fully booked – no need for us to expand into an unsold space!
Some of the stall holders were people and businesses we’ve met before and others were new to us. A few samples –
Cornish Olives
a lady from our village selling chocolate
and Katie’s Cornish Hot Pots – more about her later. We were next to some lovely people from Chough Bakery in Padstow (as seen on TV), and there were several others.
Masterclock had taken his Land Rover fire engine and the camping area by the food tent was chock-a-block, so we took our caravan to the far end of another field and set up home next to the “tractor-boys”.
Friday turned out rather showery but we were snug and dry in our swish marquee, until M/C discovered that there was a leak, landing exactly on our Royal Bag on display. All the others were fine! As he said earlier, it must have been a republican tent.
We sewed while we talked to customers in the food tent and gave away the bags we’d prepared earlier. The patriotic lady on the right waited patiently while I finished off her Union Jack bag.
The flag side had originally been a bandanna (according to its label). There were other designs too. The lady on the olive stall picked out a pretty flowery bag for her daughter who was coming to help the next day. When the daughter arrived she swapped it for the one and only “skulls” design instead!! We laughed about the difference between how her mum sees her and how she sees herself! The daughter told us she’s a psychologist….. 😀
Poor Masterclock found himself umpiring a match between his sewing machine and a reel of thread. It took a lot of time to get a result, but in the end the sewing machine won and the thread was shredded.
I talked to a lady called Lucy who was there with her young daughter. Turned out Lucy was the prime mover of “Untrashed Cornwall”
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Untrashed-Cornwall/315079378617321
Hey, look, I’m on her facebook page!! Lydia’s watching me sew 😀
I hope to get an invitation to speak to her group in a couple of months.
She introduced me to Laurence Reed, one of the presenters on Radio Cornwall. Unfortunately, he’d just gone off air, but I recorded a piece about morsbags for him to use later. Then he found that it hadn’t recorded after all, so I had to do it again, but not so well!! Never mind! I did make a boo-boo though – I got the year that morsbags was started wrong – by a whole decade!! Now I KNOW I’m getting old!! LOL!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001d7nf
We had booked dinner in the pop-up restaurant on site and Friday was steak night. Yummy! There was a veggie alternative as well, but M/C commented that it was disconcerting having cooked and raw tomatoes on the same plate. I pointed out that we also had cooked onion rings and raw onions in the salad. If you could balance it on a plate with a steak, it was there! It was also “bucket of ice cream for dessert” night! The sundaes we ordered were ENORMOUS!!! They must have been over a foot high – loaded with chocolate, raspberries, sauce, you name it. We had to walk round all the fields – several of them – before we dared retire to our caravan.
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