I really wish I had taken my camera to the Art & Craft market yesterday. During the day, I have leave my stall from time to time to nip out to the ladies or to get something to eat (sometimes to buy a paper when there aren't many customers about ...)  Yesterday there was an extraordinary street artist on a tightrope playing a fiddle!

There are a lot of street artists who come to Cambridge, the guy with the collie dog was there singing away (with the dog punctuating with howls and woofs at appropriate places) and various guitar players. I love buskers playing music on the streets; makes the City feel so much more alive in my opinion. Sometimes we have buskers in the market as well and it always seems to give an extra feel-good factor to the whole lovely feel of the market. It is gorgous at this time of year with the leaves turning and the dropped off ones carpeting the gravel.

I got an exciting commission from a lady who gave me a realistic budget for a long necklace. We discussed the kind of things that she likes and a "lack of symmetry" was one of them. I am to use my white marble lampwork beads made into different shapes with bali style sterling silver beads. I've got a good idea of what she wants and am excited to be making it. I went to sleep last night with ideas drumming around my head!

I am in such a better place mentally now after the stress about the house. DH has told me that when the builder tries to hand the house back incomplete, he is getting quotes on all the jobs he doesn't think they are going to finish. We will get them done ourselves and sue the heck out of Countryside blooming Properties (please feel free to insert appropriate expletives instead of the polite words in italics!)

Fortunately, we have a nest egg saved away we can use to do the work. I am quite relaxed about using it for this as there's no judge in this land will not award us the money when they hear how Countryside Properties have treated us in the last two years. Plus we have an insurance policy with Zurich (kind of like a car warranty but on a house!) and they have confirmed we are covered for all the unfinished items so we might even be able to get them to pay direct and them do the suing to save us the trouble.