This was the Scottish weekend
And so we had accurate weather all weekend long -- rainy and chilly. Yesterday we had a noisy thunderstorm and heavy rain for over an hour before noon, with slow rain for hours longer, easing off to merely overcast and lowering. When the forecasts predict an 80%-90% chance of rain all day long, those who do come to faire are are prepared for weather and set to have a good time. During the heavy rains, people would move into the shop, hang around to dry off a bit, get interested in the stock and start shopping, and then move on after they'd purchased, and the next crowdlet would come in. Sweet! Once the rain backed off, however, people reverted to the usual pattern of walking 10 or 15 feet away from the fronts of booths, which avoids all entanglements. A decent day over all. elliedee visited and we gossiped.
Sunday,tempest_gypsy had the day off to spend playing with her husband, and since there was a steady drizzle to slow soaking rain most of the day, patrons weren't chased inside so we were fairly quiet, with a lot of Lookie Lous. Finally, about 3:30 the gullywasher hit, raining hard for an hour. The site appeared deserted except for vendors, and we resigned ourselves to a deathly quiet couple of hours, but first one of the lovely people at Fairy Houses came over with fabulous giant pretzels from the minipub at our end of the site --- they had planned to throw them out, but our friend rescued them, and made deliveries. Whilst noshing blissfully, we had a series of die hard shoppers stop in, and all were pleasant and actually bought things! Not the best day for sales, but not nearly as awful as might have been.
I'd meant to take home my shawl last week, but I'm so glad I didn't. In my corner of the booth, the air is still, so I was fine without it, but when the last heavy rain and wind came, I surely was glad to have it to wrap in!
Sunday,tempest_gypsy had the day off to spend playing with her husband, and since there was a steady drizzle to slow soaking rain most of the day, patrons weren't chased inside so we were fairly quiet, with a lot of Lookie Lous. Finally, about 3:30 the gullywasher hit, raining hard for an hour. The site appeared deserted except for vendors, and we resigned ourselves to a deathly quiet couple of hours, but first one of the lovely people at Fairy Houses came over with fabulous giant pretzels from the minipub at our end of the site --- they had planned to throw them out, but our friend rescued them, and made deliveries. Whilst noshing blissfully, we had a series of die hard shoppers stop in, and all were pleasant and actually bought things! Not the best day for sales, but not nearly as awful as might have been.
I'd meant to take home my shawl last week, but I'm so glad I didn't. In my corner of the booth, the air is still, so I was fine without it, but when the last heavy rain and wind came, I surely was glad to have it to wrap in!