Running from the rain, the final three houses are all on Springfield Road. Handy for the punter making it up as he goes along, like yours truly. First up are Maggie Feeny & Michael Gale. A house where most things are for sale, as is par the course for open houses but this one has a something extra. If the art doesn’t take your fancy, you can always buy the house. The small sign on the back window says, rather ominously ‘no timewasters’. You have to wonder how you would start that conversation - ‘ no, the art doesn’t light my candle, but the house will do just fine…’ However, to overlook the art would be a big mistake. In the living room, there is fine sculpture by Sam Hall, excellent paintings by Feeny and Gale themselves, and Jane Abbot’s incredibly made ceramic cakes which to the untrained eye look rather tasty. I am fairly convinced that they are some of the best stuff I have seen in a while, and should win some kind of award. They should call them Jawbreakers and probably keep them out of sight of the kids.

Next, I head further into the (still) awful weather and through the door of The Real McKay. Angela McKay herself was very welcoming. It was slightly cramped but friendly with Angela, my party of three and another three punters framed by two sofas, a glass cabinet, a large table where you paid, and the breakfast bar of their kitchen. It must have been hell last weekend, what with the better weather and more customers. The artwork itself was extremely good, with cheeky monkeys by the talented Mary Moo, charming and charismatic textiles by Samantha Stas and fine paintings by Angela herself, which seemed to be all of shoes. There were also good ceramics from Ken Eardley but he pops up all over the festival, so I advise travelling a lot to see all of his work.

Next was Maggie Feeny and Michael Gale, 88 Springfield Road . As soon as you walk in you are blown away by Maggie Feeny’s great artwork. She uses a bold down to earth colour which is a great first impression as you walk into a house. Then it was Jane Matt who did lovely pictures but left a big gap at the bottom of the canvas which had a few squiggles but this was still very effective. Michael Gale did very good baffling pictures which you had to look at for at it to really see everything in the picture. There were two very similar ceramicists, Sam Hall and Tamsyn Trevorrow. They used beiges and greens most of the time with green lines of colour. They were very nice though sometimes it was very hard to tell the difference. Jane Abbott was next up with some INCREDIBLY realistic models of cakes. There weren’t many - I wonder if it’s because they’ve sold so well? I hope it is. Though I wouldn’t feel safe leaving them out with small children as they could bite into one and have their teeth out.

Then we went to The Real McKay, 59a Springfield Road. There was only one room but it had lots of brightly coloured knitwear and some ceramics. I bought a bargain price egg cosy made by Samantha Stas for £4.50! Then Mary Moo’s work caught my eye. She makes these crazy little toys out of old jumpers and socks. I would have bought these but they were £2over my £10 price budget. Ken Eardly was the ceramicist if I remember correctly who was in with the fashion of green blue and beige stripes. Angela Mckay’s work was very nice as well with a good use of colour.