It’s always worth asking!

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This year I decided not to be part of the chorus for the pantomime, but to help out backstage instead, making scenery and props. They needed more help as a couple of people who have been coming along for years have suddenly stopped, and the remainers were getting a bit stressed. One key thing needed for ‘Sleeping Beauty’ is a spinning wheel. I’m sure it can’t be that difficult to make one, or at least something that looks the part, from a bicycle wheel and a few bits of wood or something along those lines, but with a reduced workforce and limited time of course it would be easier if we could find one ready made. I was told that people had been looking on Ebay, Facebook marketplace etc. but so far the ones available were either extremely expensive or very far away, or both. So I thought I would ask on Freegle, just in case. After all you never know. So I wrote a ‘wanted’ post asking for a spinning wheel, working or not, that was no longer needed or at least wasn’t needed until February, and lo and behold, a kind lady offered to lend us one! When I went round to pick it up she explained that she didn’t really know anything about spinning, but was helping her friend clear her mother’s house and had offered to sell some things. She was sure it wouldn’t matter if it wasn’t sold until next year. So we are now the proud temporary caretakers of a very nice Ashford Traveller, as it turns out! All rights reserved. © Text copyright Fleur 2023.