First car boot sale of 2026 - nearly as big as a summer day - but a lot chillier. Plenty of sellers and buyers.
This is one of the house clearance people, impossible to rummage through the boxes for very long without getting a bad back! A huge stack of dressmaking patterns there on the left, perhaps someone will snap them up for reselling on line.
I didn't spend much. £3 on two bunches of flowers and 50p for the washing soda (which I use along with a Smol capsule in the washing machine) and 50p for the full roll of baking paper.
There is no sign at all of the crocus and tulips bulbs that I replanted last year in the big pot out the front of the bungalow, so I also spent £3 on a pack of 6 Primula plants to cheer things up.
I popped them out in the top of the pot when I got home............... after I'd had my breakfast.
Pretty Primulas. I can't seem to get washing soda hereabouts - I would have to buy it on line, for heaven's sake!
ReplyDeleteLuckily there are a couple of places - independent hardware shops that still sell it around about but it's on of those things that's often in the boxes of odds and ends from house clearance.
DeleteStrange that you would have a hard time getting laundry soda! I wonder why? Your flowers are so pretty.
DeleteI love those primulas, so pretty and springlike
ReplyDeleteGoodness knows what happened to the tulip bulbs that were in this pot
DeleteBlue primulas -- I don't think I've seen them. Here it's red and yellow mainly, but the blue is lovely. You're so good about buying strictly useful items like kitchen supplies. Mostly!
ReplyDeleteThe camera has turned them blue - in reality they are lilac
DeleteThat's a really big boot sale. I wonder where the sellers get all of that stuff. Just cleaning out their own homes or do they gather from other sales all year long?
ReplyDeleteDealers, house clearance and household junk - all sorts of people - all ages and such a lot of rubbish!
DeleteWe have lost quite a lot of bulbs this winter to rodents, only the ones in pots, they leave them alone in the ground. Very frustrating. The primulas look very cheery.
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It's a mystery about the tulip bulbs, I expect things to vanish from the garden but not from a pot
DeleteIt's nice seeing little bits of colour around the garden again isn't it. So much of what I thought had been dug up by Ginger is now reappearing in the garden again too. I've always loved Primulas and Primroses.
ReplyDeleteI kept hoping the tulips would pop up - but no - they've vanished or perhaps rotted in the pot
DeleteYour Primulas look lovely.
ReplyDeleteTulips do not grow on my property either. I was told the squirrels eat the bulbs and I would have to enclose the bulbs in chicken wire and bury them. I plant daffodils instead and they grow well.
Flowers look lovely.
ReplyDeleteWhat fun! It's nice to sometimes have a nosy around and see what people are selling. You came away with some good useful things!
Your flowers look beautiful. A lovely burst of colour.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Those primulas are so pretty. I've not been to a boot sale in ages. Maybe I'll put it on my to do list for this year.
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