Crafts At the Petition Office

The recall petition to remove Chris Davies as our local MP opened yesterday at 9am (one lady was there at one minute past nine!). It's in the Council Chambers, and the last time I was in that room, I was a witness at a wedding. There's disabled access round the back, and they have a magnifying glass for people who need large print.
There are two ladies in charge of the procedure, crossing your name off the electoral register and giving you the form to sign. One of them was knitting a jumper. They're there for six weeks, so she'll probably have finished it by then! So we got chatting about Stitch and Bitch (she already goes to another craft group at Three Cocks), and trying out different crafts.
There's a hotel down in Okehampton that runs craft courses - you stay for a few days (at very reasonable rates) and sign up for as many different craft courses as you wish - she enjoyed the glass engraving, and there were various pottery courses, and all sorts of other crafts, as well as entertainment in the evenings - and Okehampton is in a lovely part of the country. A whole group from Three Cocks went a couple of years ago.
They remembered the fad for yarn bombing, and I admitted to being one of the yarn bombers of Hay - and now there's a new fad of leaving painted pebbles around for children to find. That started last year, and I've just carried on doing it. It's a good way of experimenting to see how different techniques work.