Bad luck or what?

Yesterday, Sunday, saw Time Was... at Kettering Toyfair, in particular at the Arena for what turned out to be our best toyfair in quite a while. The toys were selling, the fairies were simply vanishing into fairy dust and there were a few bargains to be found as well. What could have been better?

The day started bright and dry, if a wee bit cold, as we drove down the A43, Aled was on the air, not walking in the air!! All in all a very good day was to be had. And then the bombshell hit as we arrived this was to be our last toyfair at Kettering for sometime.

The Kettering Arena has taken on new management and decided that the place should do what it was designed for, to play sport, so they have cancelled all the Toyfairs that Barry Potter had booked there for the rest of the year. This has to be shortsighted on the part of the new management since the place was buzzing, the bar seemed to be doing a good trade as well, which must be good for them, and I bet Barry was paying a nice price for the privilege of staging one of his fairs. Oh well instead of hundreds in the Arena next time there will be 22 folks kicking a football around. After-all if you want sport why not go down and to Nottingham Forest and see how it's done and watch 11 blokes who know how to kick a football.

And then as we left it got slightly worse as a missed turning meant a 6-six mile round trip to get back on the road to home. Still the music was good on Radio 2, Sounds of the 70's with Johnnie Walker, the DJ not the whisky. Now we're showing our age as we sang along with Middle of the Road and Chirpy, Chirpy, Cheep, Cheep. One of Tony Blackburn's all-time heavy rock greats!!!