I thought I'd cut myself some slack this for this week and take the Fuji Instax along to work, of sorts. Handily, the Little Bird SOS studio is at Greenacres, at the North end of the Great Central Railway and there's often events going on outside the door, so Lisa and I opened the shop and whilst she made items to sell, I spent the day stocking the shop up with donated wool, which took AGES. Surely such a simple task should have been quicker?
I got waylaid by Lisa’s yarnstormed bike though first…
Here’s our gaff. The view from here across Leicester is pretty good.
It wasn’t until the end of the day that I nipped out to see the stalls and say hello to some of the reenactors who’d been camping out there for the weekend. This Is Vintage Amor who tempted me with a red snakeskin effect vanity case…which smells of powder and is now full of film cameras. Ahem.
This impressed my lad…
And this nice bloke, who had the gift of the gab and also enjoyed being a ‘scary’ German on the trains, is from Feldjagerkorps 44, a living history/re-enactment group.
I should have taken more photos of the women, who looked amazing. They made me want to wear a dress too! Unfortunately my Pearl Lowe tea dress makes me look like Grayson Perry.
And then it was time for the corporate photo to be renewed. I decided that I rather liked the 1940’s when two smartly suited gentlemen insisted on helping me out of the chair. Hell, sometimes it’s nice to feel like a gal.
