For the first time in a week the sun shone on Saturday and I popped 15 minutes away to a Jumble Sale.
There was a long queue ready for door opening, as usual - but look - Blue Sky!
and it's a tiny village hall but very well used. The Jumble sale is a fundraiser for the hall.
It's a squash inside when everyone is in and requires much shuffling about. This year I only found one thing to buy- a Mason Cash pudding basin for £1 (no books sadly, last year I found a Kristin Hannah that I'd not read).. The bowl is a replacement for one that came back from BiL's after Christmas with a huge crack. He said it was OK when he washed it up!
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| It says 'God save the cream' with a crown! |
There was time to go home get lunch and then out again for the Scout Jumble Sale in Eye Town Hall. The queue to get in was even longer than the one at Thornham and the squash inside so big that after a while they were operating a one in one out system.
It was nice to get out and about after several grey, wet days at home. Sadly the sun hasn't been seen again since and the forecast is just as dull. The jumble sales, exercise group and a quick dash out for a shop were the only trips out all week and I realised I'd not had any sort of proper conversation with anyone for 6 days!.
The weather makes it difficult to get up the enthusiasm for anything..... except reading!.
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I sometimes wonder if those weird liqueurs bought abroad as holiday gifts are EVER opened - or do they spend the next five years travelling the county as prizes in raffles and tombolas?
ReplyDeleteI think you're right. Might be best used as a drain cleaner!
DeleteI now have a mental picture of bottles of hooch of uncertain age travelling on an unending journey from one charity event to the next... circular economy and recycling taken to extremes...
ReplyDeleteYuk - drain cleaner sounds like a fitting end for it!
ReplyDeleteNo jumble sales in these parts. I used to love a good jumble sale too. Glad you found a replacement bowl and a good book anyway.
Two dry sunny days were brilliant, like you we are back to grey and dull, last night we had the heaviest rainstorm lasting for hours, it's stopped raining so the children got to school dry.
ReplyDeleteWe had a suspicious bottle of red wine that showed up at regular intervals for a couple of years in local raffles. The Mason Cash is a good buy indeed. We don't seem to have had a good Jumble Sale here for ages, they used to be a regular feature.
ReplyDeleteno joy yet on my Facebook reinstatement, I fear the worse.
Blue sky? - what is that? not seen one for some time, think need to put out a search party for one.😊
ReplyDeleteI love a rummage sale, not been to one (a decent one) what feels like an age.