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Sword Canes and Sunshine

Posted: 27/08/18 (19:24pm)

Another week has flown by and Sue and I are about to fly off. We're heading to the sun for a relaxing all inclusive holiday. Sue has loaded her tablet up with quizzes, cross words and other fun games, I've loaded mine with articles on swords, photos and stock descriptions (so that I can list new items while abroad) and a few books I've been wanting to read for some time. I'm half-way through Mary Beard's History of Rome and am looking forward to finishing it while lazing on the beach or by the pool with a gin and tonic in hand.

This last week has been quite hectic, finishing customer restorations and of course sourcing new stock. I drove to Blackpool last Monday and came home with a couple of nice swords and three sword canes. I have just listed one of them and will be adding the others over the next week or two (they're on my tablet).
The weekend was spent working but we did find time to attend a local horticultural show on Saturday afternoon as Sue had a couple of entries in the curiously named "Industrial" class. Sue won first prize for her felt flower and I am very proud of her. 
We were both amazed at the flowers and vegetable classes. The vegetables were huge and perfect in every way (I bet they'll taste great too) and I must confess to feeling a little onion envy. Whenever I grow some they struggle to get as big as a tennis ball and I have yet to grow a decent carrot.

The flowers were incredible. They looked so perfect that they didn't look real and the colours were jaw dropping. 

On Sunday morning I helped run a car boot for the "Friends of Mangu" charity (of which I am a trustee). The charity has built and equipped a secondary school for the Mangu community in the north of Ghana, West Africa, and have also provided bore holes and pumps to bring water to the neediest areas.
It was a successful morning and the funds raised will go towards sinking another bore hole and buying a pump.

All in all, it has been a busy and satisfying week.