Fabric gets and not gets

Had a look round Bath on the chance that there was something I needed yesterday and discovered that the shop in Green Street had had a load of velvet in recently. Victory! Wasn't cheap, but certainly wasn't expenive - only 50p a metre more than the stuff I had been looking at in fabric land. Checked they had the right shade of green and lots of red, and went away so I could come back tomorrow with a bag.

Got in today, rooted all the way through the section (it's one of those lovely shops that you have to rummage through because they don't have enough room to lay everything out) and could not find the green. Asked at the counter and discovered it had all been sold yesterday. Someone apparently needed 70 metres of stuff, including all the green in two different shades. The good new is that all hope is not lost: it's all reserved, and if they don't pick it up today I can claim it tomorrow. Also got perfect red velvet for Lia's dress. I ended up paying only £1 more than if I'd got the not-quite-right fabric in fabric land and geting 1/2 a metre free as it was the end of the roll.

Victories of a sort. Now I have to make it into a dress.

Also, I can now say Joe has been wonderful and awesome and got me an otter adoption! I couln't say until now as we gone one for someone else and didn't want to risk spoiling the surprise. So now I am helping towards the upkeep of Buffy the otter. Yay!