New Art and Owls

Backfold was looking more colourful than usual yesterday. The little shop under Nepal Bazaar, which they use as a store room, was open, and various bits and pieces were on display on the pavement outside it. The lady in charge has been allowed to display her paintings in there, as well as selling a few of Nancy's things, and she also has some rather wonderful carvings of owls and hawks in wood. A lot of the paintings are of members of the lady's family - there's a magical one of her father, holding a glowing orb. There are also landscapes, and one picture solid with small portraits of 1920s men, which she took from an old photo of Wall Street.

Later in the evening, I went down to the car park, and noticed that the Top Vet's has closed down. That's the nickname - not because it was the best vet's practice, but because it was at the top end of town, to differentiate it from Lamb House, at the bottom end of town. In fact, the two seem to have combined forces, according to the notice on the Top Vet's gate.

There was a group of teenaged girls in the car park. They'd got a shopping trolley from somewhere (it's a long way to push one from the Co-op, but that's the closest shop that has them). So, empty car park with a long slope, shopping trolley, and giggling girls taking turns to whiz down to the bottom, screaming as if they were on the Big Dipper....
All this time, there was a group of teenaged boys up at the Craft Centre, with a grandstand view - except they were all studiously ignoring the girls.