Being Very Beverley (Hillbillies Style)

We have been home in Station House for one week after our Northern Jaunt winter escape.

We have opened the East End Gallery for the usual hours and days. I have just about finished paying those lucky artists who sold pieces whilst we were away. I have rejigged the Giftshop and undertaken a minor reshuffle of the Galley. On Sunday evening, I vacuumed the entire space, only to watch Michael and the wheelbarrow track in fresh mud across my clean floor today.

All in a good cause. Michael longs to begin the process that will lead to " A Stitch In Time" becoming a finished sculpture. As a perfectionist and a procrastinator, he often finds the beginning of a new work utterly daunting. He has removed the experimental and playful bits and pieces, the base and the trestles into the workshop. His great first step has been taken. "A Stitch In Time" has begun.

Station House is ours again. I have caught up on the washing, the dusting and cleaning the floors. We have almost finished the unpacking and repacking Digger, the caravan. We hope to take a trip away after Christmas, in a southern direction, so we need to make sure that Digger is ready for our next expedition. Needless to say, we are already planning our escape in winter 2020.

Stella, our Carnarvon Special, has well and truly been integrated into our home. Pip has not stopped smiling since Stella entered his world. He has grasped a new lease of life with all four paws. Not to mention that all his sexual fantasies have come true in the last week...

Madame Cat has resigned herself to another Canine Clown within her orbit. Days of hissing, along with the occasional left and right hook have reduced to disapproving scowls, alternating with the disdainful ignoring of the pesky pup.

Stella is still wearing her bucket of shame. This will come off on Friday along with her stitches from her sterilisation. Plus, her next lot of vaccinations, a puppy check and worming treatment. What will not change is her unbridled joy of living, which over one short week, has added so much to us all.

Even Ruby the Cat would have issues grumbling about the addition of Stella to our lives and our home.

Our current menagerie...