A larger firm have contacted my husband's little partnership with a view to having some work done - they said they would pay, didn't do so by the deadline, but now some money has trickled through but it might be too little too late. If so they might close down and he will be retired.

This Saturday is the annual machine knitting exhibition at a local school, which I attend and have a whole room for doing demonstrations. It is great fun, but exhausting. I must prepare for it, starting today, though I have an unusual number of calls on my time at the moment - it seems that it is either feast or famine, never a steady flow of work.

Prioritise - that's the way to go. I went out last night and bought ice cream - what can go wrong now?