My card stall in the Shambles

Yes, it's been done before. But this IS my life. And today's stall proved the most successful yet since the Pre-lockdown era. Not to say it was amazing, no. But encouraging, certainly.

I do like organising the playlists, too. When we were clearing up I played Jimi Hendrix. Takes me back to the John Peel sessions: listening to the radio late at night while doing crazy exercises (I had a brief period of being a secret teenage exercise junkie). 'Peelie' once played Hey Joe twice in a row, he liked it so much. It was John Peel and my old school mate's brother who turned me on to Jimi Hendrix, and I got my younger but middle sister turned onto him, and now we have a nephew /son named Jimi, who will be twenty-four a week today. Twenty-Four???

We are so old now. I am 56. That sister is 55. It strikes me that if furlough ends in October and youth club hasn't resumed, that I will find it hard to get another part time job. The competition is fierce. All I can hope for is extra hours at the nursery where I also work part time, but that is not guaranteed. I've applied for jobs that involve hours of work and form filling just to apply , and the taking of numerous tests. And what do I hear? Very little. "If you've got another job meantime, please let us know".

On the plus side, today I met an old acquaintance whom I had introduced to the WEA classes in Stonehouse. She became my best customer of the day. And another lady, whom I had chatted to in 2013 about war graves in Belgium, remembered me when I gave her my card. She had advised me to go to the museum of the cloth of gold in Ypres. I duly went. I was impressed. I was even more surprised when she told me that she still had my name in her address book. Such are the threads. I remembered meeting her at a stall where she was selling white poppies. Now I think it might have been at a life drawing class where I was the life model! Now we were standing by my card stall discussing complementary therapies.
Is my whole life actually a dream?

My online card stall is at www.helenascards.co.uk
Thanks to all the blippers and non blippers who've kept me afloat by ordering. You know who you are! You do not go unnoticed, believe me.