There is usually no hold up getting into the car park for the big Saturday boot-sale but at the weekend there was a queue to drive in and for some reason everyone toward the back end of the queue starting honking their car horns and it sounded like a foreign country that you see on TV where the streets are full of honking car horns. It was quite strange.
From where I was I could see the driver of the van at the front having an arguement with the man on the gate. The 'No More Pitches Available' sign was up which presumably the man-in-the-van was complaining about, and it was only just after 7am. Anyway, the van eventually went in and the queue soon moved and I doubt it was more than a 5 minute hold-up - Goodness, how impatient people are getting - even in our usually quiet Suffolk.
And this is why I need the 50p coins mentioned yesterday! because I did actually find 3 things this week which is more finds than I've had for ages. 50p each. Dream Catcher for EGD to make, book of poems and sayings and the box of chocolaty drinks and bits - it's been an age since I drank a hot chocolate and I bet these will be really sweet but at eight drinks for 50p I thought it would make a change and cheap too.
Then home for breakfast and apart from getting the bread maker going and using the pathetic small aubergines to make an aubergine/pasta bake for 2 days dinners I did nothing else all day. Couldn't make out why I was so tired but realised I'd been out somewhere for a while everyday last week - too exhausting - I really am getting old!
Thanks everyone for comments yesterday.
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I find the heat so debilitating. A busy morning in Norwich and then I had to have a sleep in the afternoon before GD arrived for sleepover
ReplyDeleteI expect you needed another nap after the sleepover too!
DeleteGreat finds for 50p! I don't drink hot chocolate often these days but sometimes it just hits the spot and that's a great price for 8 drinks. I didn't feel too good at the weekend so an afternoon on the sofa with a hot chocolate and a Jane Austen adaptation was in order.
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The outside box said Best Before May '25 but I thought as they were dried powder they would be OK and oddly the sachets inside all say BB September '25. I tried one so far - it was a nice change from coffee and tea.
DeleteLike Angela, I find the heat very debilitating. It's meant to be 30 deg here today - I shall be inside. It's just right out there at the moment - about 14 deg!
ReplyDeleteGood finds at the car boot sale. I've been to/done just ONE this year. They're all so far away (e.g. 40 miles or so!) We live in a car boot desert. I think there's a titchy one in Llandod, in the Bowling Alley, but I always forget to look when that's on.
Not too hot for our exercise group this morning as it was still in the 20s after a bit of rain around daybreak. Set to be up in the 30's for a few days - Don't think I'll be going far!
DeleteGood hunting!
ReplyDeleteThere is a growing trend for self-centredness and a lack of patience, understanding and empathy. Here endeth the rant.
Very true. It was odd to hear - and I thought that it wouldn't have happened a few years ago
DeleteGood buys and well spotted. I am already wilting in the heat today and it’s only 11am! Will stay indoors where it is cooler until later in the day. Catriona
ReplyDeleteThe chocolate drinks will make a nice treat and a change, not sure about all the different sprinkle things - marshmallows maybe but some of the others are odd.
DeleteThe book looks good and the chocolate a bargain.
ReplyDeleteSadly more and more folk are developing zero tolerance aren't they.
Alison in Devon x
I was at a deli he other day, and I had to wait. I could see with my own eyes that the man was busy. When I got waited on. He apologized profusely. The other person scheduled had not shown up, and he had a large order to get for a customer who was returning. I said. 'It doesn't cost anything to be patient.' But inside, what I felt was very sorry for him. What a rough day. People seem increasingly unable to put themselves in other people's shoes. The arguer. The honkersons. At the root of it, there was likely an employee having a rough day.
ReplyDeleteSadly, short tempers show up more often these days.
ReplyDeleteI do not think I've experienced a mass of honking car horns. People get impatient too quickly. I notice on our roads when someone wants to pass quickly, they honk their horn repeatedly to tell everyone to move over so they can pass quickly. Oddly enough, I've met up with the honking car at the next red light. All that honking was for nothing.
Hello! Good finds! And I agree with the others. Sadly, people have lost their sense of patience and respect. I think it stems from the -rush -rush -rush mentality these days. Have a cozy afternoon!
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