HI Everyone, me as me today, adding a little news to the mix. I have confirmed some lovely crafts people for the event, including; Abu Jafar and Ewa Wawrzyniak with their beautiful glass creations, Richard Ballantyne with his Raku pots and animals with attitude, The Little Christmas Company with their stunning seasonal handmade decorations.Sally Pillar is bring her fascinating fascinators and textile brooches , Sara Whitaker with gorgeous beaded jewellry, Jane Beavan with unique glass creations and jewellry,Janis Lees with healthy Forever Living products, and Fay Somerset with amazing clocks. More that are not named here for lack of time just now, but I will keep you all posted. This morning we have been decorating the courtyard to make it look festive and preparations are coming along nicely. Ella's last post follows! bye for now LB.xxx

 Evening all, sorry this blog post has been quite late today, both Lucinda and I have had very busy days today. Lucinda has had some family over this week to help her decorate the gallery. Hopefully we will have some pictures to follow. She was out today at the Winslow vintage and Handmade fair trying to rally some troops for the Fire Walk craft fair. Only two weeks away!

Also, here is the link for the Facebook page Lucinda has created for the Fire Walk event https://www.facebook.com/pages/Claydon-House-Fire-walking-Event-4th-December/307457599283834
It features some of the confirmed stalls for the craft fair and gives you all the event details.

Through these blogs, you have gotten to know Lucinda's sense of humour, so one of the things you'll have hopefully realized is that she loves animals doing really cute things. So she thought she couldn't enlighten you with these really good videos of animals doing funny things!

This was my personal choice for the blog, Lucinda didn't find it half as hilarious as I did, but regardless she still found it funny:

Now this one is from Lucinda:

http://animalvideos.yahoo.com/?vid=26284767

And now for the joke:

A man is waiting for wife to give birth. The doctor comes in and informs the dad that his son was born without torso, arms or legs. The son is just a head! But the dad loves his son and raises him as well as he can, with love and compassion. And on his 18th birthday, the son is old enough for his first drink so his dad takes him to the bar for his first pint.

So his dad orders a pint from him and with all the bar patrons looking on curiously and the bartender shaking his head in disbelief, the boy takes his first sip of alcohol. Swoooop! A torso pops out! 

The bar is dead silent; then bursts into a whoop of joy. The father, shocked, begs his son to drink again. The patrons chant "Take another drink"!

Swoooop! Two arms pops out. The bar goes wild.  The patrons chant, "Take another drink"!  By now the boy is getting tipsy, and with his new hands he reaches down, grabs his drink and guzzles the last of it. Swoooop! Two legs pop out. 

The bar is in chaos.  The boy stands up on his new legs and stumbles out of the bar, into the road, where a truck runs over him and kills him instantly. 

The bar falls silent. The bartender sighs and says, "That boy should have quit while he was a head." 

Have a good week!