B...B......Bank holiday weekend

The pork provisioner's had a lovely weekend... starting out in the market place at Brigg on Saturday and moving on to Burghley for Sunday and Monday.

Mind you - we had our ups and downs. Imagine: we were all set up on Saturday morning, nice and early so's to be ready for all our eager customers.

.... Then the shopkeepers turned up.

"You can't stay there" said one to us "Told the organisers - no stalls in front of our shop". After much huffing & puffing we agreed a spot to move to..

"You can't be serious!" said the butcher. "I'm not having you next to me". We agreed.

Much consultation and steam later we moved again.

And that was fine. Outside some closed down shops at the end of the street. We were happy enough. Later: "I'm not a complaining sort normally" said the guy who'd first complained about us being in front of his shop "but the customers are complaining about the noise from your generator. Could you please move it further away from my shop?" We did and then turned it off. What the hell. It wasn't exactly a hot day. We had lots of happy customers so we were not complaining.
It stayed dry during the market. On the way home we drove through a tropical storm. Typically, it had 'hit' at piggie tea time. Stopped after an hour. Piggies fed!  But the journey home was like being in a power boat - water underneath & heavy spray to right and left!
Sunday and Monday we were in the more sedate surrounds of Burghley House. No complaints. No rain during the day; lots of happy customers - torrential rain on the way home again though. We could see not a thing on the journey - just spray and rain. Arriving back here - hardly a drop had fallen. Monday was peace & quiet tho The Big Boss amended the "Offering" in view of the fact we nearly sold out of everything by end of Sunday. "I know!" he said - "We'll do cooked sausages to give people an alternative to those burgers".(The queue had been a mile long for three hours on Saturday). We did, and they did and the net result was I spent most of Sunday happily cooking sausages to sell. Lots of them. Lots and lots of them....  We'll be doing that again one day I fear....... Maybe as early as Burghley this coming weekend.

But it didn't rain on the way home

End of the
B....b.....b....Holiday

p.s.
In case you didn't catch us at Burghley last weekend,  we'll be there at the Horse Trians from Thurs thru Sunday this week so you can come and fill up n all those goodies you love from us....