My Quiet Life in Suffolk

 You just never know what you are going to find at a car boot sale and last weekend I found 3 chocolate rabbits. Actually I could have had m...

..................... I found him at the Sunday car-boot sale. For the princely sum of 50p, he has joined the other three looking out of my ...

Car boot finds this summer weren't very exciting. So many people just bring the same old stuff every week and it's often just the Ho...

At a recent Sunday car boot sale I picked up this book just to see what it was. Good Housekeeping was a magazine I sometimes bought back in ...

 I rarely buy anything at boot sales nowadays that I like rather than need (actually I rarely buy anything that isn't something to use F...

 Found a few weeks ago = Top Trumps Marvel Heros cards for next visit  of any of the Grandsons and brand new George (Asda) Sunglasses labell...

 I love these Oxford Black n' Red note/account lined books - they have hard covers and are casebound like a book so last well and are ve...

 I fished these things out of the boxes of one of the house clearance people who were at the nearest car-boot sale on Sunday - they are alwa...

Apart from the £5 wasted  on the card making stuff, car boot sale finds  have been  useful or  interesting   and  mentioned already but sev...

 Last Saturday's car-boot sale was huge and extremely busy.I found a few useful bits which came from the boxes of four different house-c...

 .....were my car boot sale finds on Saturday. Unusual to find two books at a boot sale that look interesting. I dithered over the 'Back...

...........at Car Boot Sales. A group of us from Stowmarket Grammar School  went on an Educational School Cruise on board the SS Nevasa in O...

Apart from that mistake of the shelf unit, purchases have been virtually non existent. . A pack of charity Christmas cards for £1 and that...

 It was a frosty morning on Saturday for the car boot sale but nice and dry and sunny, it was good to be out early.  I didn't walk all t...

 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 cl...

 It was very busy at the one-off Christmas car-boot sale on Saturday. Very chilly but that hadn't put people off. The rows of people sel...

 Yep, another piece of Portmeirion Holly and Ivy china. A tea-light holder. Car boot find - of course. £2. I was walking by just as the lady...

 It's the start of the Autumn Fayre season. Fundraisers for villages all around. From November they will be called Christmas Fayres, but...

 More of the old Suffolk photos I found at the small Sunday boot sale. More information on yesterday's post. The next two I knew. The fi...