Last night was my last garden club talk of 2024. I think I've given over 20 this year! It's a fun thing to do and a good way for me to get my name out there and sell the products I make. Last nights was in a very old village hall, but with a great group of people. The one I gave on Tuesday was to a club I've spoken at a few times and it was a new talk about "The Self-Sufficient Fruit Grower" and it was really well received.
I had two talks this week and one last week.
Last weeks was funny, it was a catalogue of errors and mishaps to get to do the speaking!
It was in Berkeley and supposed to be in a library. When I turn up I was greeted by a lovely lady, but also to complete darkness. The library had no power to it (a new library was being built behind this building and they weren't sure if the builders had killed the power to it. So for a while we tried to get the power on, looking at fuse boards and ringing people who might know. But alas to no avail.
So with all the members of the garden club there they took the decision to move it, I was happy to do this as I'd much prefer it to driving back another time and with everyone there it seemed silly not to try and make it happen.
They managed to get the common room in an retirement complex.
I was given some instructions to get there but saw a red pickup take off from the library and decided to follow that vehicle. Unbeknownst to me he had just dropped his mum to the garden club and she was getting a lift. So instead I just followed some guy back to his house!
I realised my error early (well as he parked up) and turned around and managed to find the house with a lot of worried people outside thinking I may have abandoned them!
I set up inside the very cosy room, not much bigger than my sitting room, using a set of blinds as my screen for a projector.
To be fair every looked very comfy in armchairs! Luckily I was entertaining enough to prevent anyone from falling asleep even with these new comfy surroundings.
The talk started much later due to these movements, and as it was south of the Severn I didn't get home until gone 11 last night!
I'm reminded of my favourite cartoonist who had a book entitled "Funny way to make a living..." and although his was in reference to agriculture, I'm fairly sure he'd agree that what I do is often an odd way to make a living, there isn't much glamour but it can be quite fun at times!
I'm looking froward to February when the talk "season" will start again. It really does break up the week and can be great fun.
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