Late again!

Okay, I know, I'm rubbish at keeping this blog updated.  Anyway, this week is half term and I can't tell you how wonderful it was to wake up this morning at 10am!!!  Pure unadulterated bliss and as I write this entry, I'm still in my pyjamas!!!  However, this is just a quick update as I want to go and see the Street Photography exhibition at the Museum of London today.  EleBoo is just great at the moment, I'm constantly grateful for all the wonderful comments I get regarding my photos and the sales are still (slowly) trickling in (I am, like the rest of the market traders, praying for an economic turnaround soon, especially as the stall rent is increasing soon!).  If anyone out there knows how I can get my hands on a business start-up grant, I would be grateful, I've spent hours looking to no avail!!  So, before I sign off, I just want to ask the question as to why people think that it's acceptable to tell a whole bus-full of people all about their life intracacies.  I mean in the space of a week, I've listened to a guy on his way home from court, talking about all the unsavoury things that he done and how he'd "gotten away" with a five-year suspended sentence, then there was the guy speaking to his wife, who then decided to put her on speakerphone so that he didn't have to hold the phone anymore!!  However, the most incredible was the guy on the 69 bus the other night, who wanted to tell the person he was speaking to that he was running late.  He started by saying that he was at Leyton station and asked how long it would take from there to get to his destination.  The person either didn't hear him or became instantly unable to understand the English language, as he then proceeded to repeat his location over and over again.  Ley-ton station, I'm at Leyton, I'm at LEYTON station, I kid you not, he said it about 20 times, everyone on the top deck, was laughing by this point, he then said "Can't you hear me?"  To which I said, "Obviously not!!!"  The guy then realised that everyone was laughing at the ridiculous conversation he was having and then he said "I'll send you a text".  Why he didn't just do that in the first place, is anyone's guess!!!  See you soon x

Okay! I'm getting a bit lazy, or am I just busy again!

My aim to write a new blog entry every week has gone up in smoke, but I'm here now!!  So, in those two weeks that have passed, I've gotten myself into a school and they want to keep me and will even allow for the time off to go to Central America.  Am I happy?  I'm ecstatic!  The kids are manageable and the science dept. have been really welcoming, so all good there.  As a result though, I'll have to knock Fridays at the market on the head for the foreseeable future, but don't worry, I'll still be at Greenwich every Sunday and the every other Saturday too.  In fact it's so great to be back in the classroom, that the fact that I'm still waiting for solicitors, courts, the old school to respond correctly (or at all) to my requests, has failed to register higher than a 2 on my 'blip radar'.


As for EleBoo, that's great too!  I seem to have attracted lots of elephant-lovers to the stall in a last few weeks, so there's now a page on the website just for their viewing pleasure.  Also, I took a bit of a gamble on having a picture enlarged to 30" x 20" and then mounted on Diasec®, it cost a fair bit too, compared to normal framing, but, oh my gosh, I sold it less than 24 hours after collecting it!  Big thanks to Kay Mounting for an amazing job and of course to "R" for buying #1 of 25.  Lastly, I just want to say how great it is to meet such a mix of wonderful people at the market, the day passes much faster when I spend most of it chatting!!  Oh, now this really is the last thing for this entry.  “He who heeds the word wisely will find good, and whoever trusts in the Lord, happy is he.” (Proverbs 16:20)

Where does the time go?

Is it really two weeks since New Year's Eve??  I mean I know it is, but is it really???  Now, I don't want to jinx myself, but in the last few days, things seem to be falling into place.  I've sold a couple of big pictures, which is absolutely fabulous and I know my framer was happy to see me coming back to place a new order!  I had a really good photo shoot for a birthday party and some of the photos are simply stunning, I'm booked in for a seminar on Thursday week about raising finance for the business, I've found a supplier for some acrylic work, I finally saw the physio, so that hopefully soon I'll stop feeling like I have the back of a 93 year old and lo and behold, my CRB check has been completed after 12 weeks of waiting!!!!  The Metropolitan Police really need to pull their finger out on that onerous process.  Okay, I'm still waiting for court expenses, a job, salary, bla bla bla, however, I feel more positive now than I have done for months.