October Car Boot Sale Finds

Car-boot sale season is all over for another year and these were my last few purchases -  all came out of the boxes of house clearance stuff.

 50p for a pack of envelopes.

50p each for almost full pack of baking parchment and small fridge/freezer bags.

£1 for 3 cards and £1 for soap

That's it!

Christmas Tree Decorations

 I finished cross stitching the three little Christmas tree decorations and have completed two using the ribbon and bell from those Lindt bunnies (which by-the-way were Far Too Much chocolate! so it's a good thing they are too expensive to buy anywhere other than a car-boot sale!)

 My original tree decs like these from many years ago used cotton backing and were stuffed to make them really plump, I've not done that with these. The felt backing, and just a thin layer of wadding and the bell are enough. Don't think they are good enough to give away. I'm better at the X stitch than the putting together bit!

What a waste of time the year of Latin I did at grammar school was and how much more useful it would have been to do sewing and knitting................ Although in reality I'd rather be reading!

A Lot of News About..............

......................something of no interest to 99.9% of the population.

I don't know how many times over the weekend and on Monday I heard on the radio news that Oxford Street in London had been pedestrianised.

So???

Many towns and cities in all parts of the country have pedestrianised shopping centres. News about nothing.

I think it's called London-Centric - meaning too much importance on London. Of course this is one reason our new PM got his job - being a bloke from 'up north' and reminding everyone that there is more to the England than London.

It annoys me that the BBC have shortened news programmes from local areas. Look East - the BBC  early evening regional news TV programme used to be half an hour and divided into two parts for east and west of the area. Now it's often just 20 minutes squeezed into the national news and covers everywhere from Milton Keynes and Peterborough in the west to Lowestoft in the East.

I think I heard they are getting rid of BBC Radio Scotland  sometime too.

Really this is a post about nothing of interest - so 99.9% of readers should ignore!😐