Looking But Not Buying

Viewing for the 3rd Domestic and Rural Bygones Sale of the year at Clarke and Simpsons sale-yard at Campsea Ashe yesterday, so after looking online I went to have a look at the real thing.

 

As usual there were lots of rusty stuff and junk with just a few interesting bits. These are the things that caught my eye.

 

 I'm always attracted to old gingerbread moulds - they are fascinating, this is described as "An amusing primitive antique carved treen cat gingerbread mould"

This little stool looks old

 

A collection of kitchenalia......except for the hair trimmers and  bedpan! Somehow I don't think the cheese wheel lid fits on the base that it's sitting on do you?

A child's pink unicycle?? very unique I should think

A very early "Washing Machine". The lever moves the posser or dolly up and down. I've seen plenty of wash tubs, possers, dollys, tongs and wash boards but never seen anything like this before. The wash tub is up on a metal stand to save bending - it must have been a real "mod con" for someone in the past.

 

2 rocking horses - one much older than the other

I could do with these old lawn edgings to replace the grotty plastic edging that's here

These croquet sets  are always turning up on the TV antiques programmes - Jaques are the name that make them the best for selling.

A very old - Victorian ? or Edwardian?- garden cloche and on the left is a copper posser - as mentioned above

 

You would need a very large pond for this pond yacht!

 

There were several boxes of old books, cards and postcards, these looked as if they all been torn out of an album.

Stuffed animals or Taxidermy is not every ones cup of tea. This is much bigger than usual and the chance of seeing a pheasant and her chicks so close to a fox is very unlikely!!

Another model boat,Venture, it says Cranfields Ltd, Ipswich (Cranfields were a grain buying/storage company with their own bakeries) so maybe this is modeled on the real thing from back in the day.

 

Another collection of Kitchenalia

 

Some of the rustier things in the sale although I like the big pottery basin  - everything will sell even if it is rusty. 

 

These below were more interesting to me than old watering cans and milk churns - an old farm yard with lots of mostly lead animals- it reminded me of my childhood farm and I had many of these animals. This was guided at £40-£60

 

Now this sign below is my most favourite thing in the whole sale! I would love to buy it.  It was estimated at £40 - £60 but online bidding was already at £90 when I looked on Friday I expect it will go for several £100.

 

And Finally the biggest thing in the sale is this massive Airstream caravan - you don't see many of these in the UK! It's guide price is around £22,000

The sale starts at 9am today and with over 1000 lots will still be going in the early afternoon. So if you are looking at this early you could go online at The Saleroom.com and register to buy something.

I shall leave all the buying to others!

This weekend after no Yard/Garage sales for ages two come along at once. Thorndon last weekend and a few miles in the other direction it's Finningham today.Another thing to look forward to is a bit of glitz and glitter with the return of Strictly Come Dancing tonight.

Have a good weekend.

 

Back Monday

Sue

Another Post-box Post

The mystery of the hooded postbox................

This appeared in the village where BiL lives over 2 years ago. No one had asked for another postbox in the village, no one knew why it had been put there.

It's in a very bad spot, just as cars come out of the Village Hall car-park, blocking the view up the road.

The Parish Council asked Royal Mail why it had been installed there. They said they didn't know!

It's sat there covered like this ever since.

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 (Thank you for all the comments about the Elderberry Syrup yesterday. I have no idea if it really helps against colds but it tastes good and certainly can't do any harm and Betty's comment about scientific investigation into the efficacy of Elderberries was interesting to know)

 

Back Tomorrow 

Sue

Wild Fruit Syrup

Several years ago I made Elderberry Rob, so good for winter colds.

 I doubt there would have been a better opportunity to snip the Elderberries from a tree on the bank opposite the bungalow than the week the road was closed. There wasn't really enough Elderberries so went on a bike ride around the back lanes to see if there was anything else to add in.

I ended up with just around a pound and a quarter of a mix of elderberries, some blackberries and a few yellow cherry-plums from a tree overhanging the road and the only 2 red cherry-plums that weren't squashed on the road.

 

 I popped them in the freezer and later found a few more elderberries and blackberries until I had about 2lb in total. This is the recipe I used in 2018 and 2019

This time I remembered to add a cinnamon stick to the boiling fruit - cinnamon is good for colds too.

 

After straining

 

and adding an equal amount of sugar and boiling gently for 5 minutes, then into sterilized bottles it made 4 and a bit kilner bottles.

I tried a little in some hot water and it's just as good as I remember.

I'm pleased to have this tucked away for winter and two for the Christmas Hamper gifts too.

Back Tomorrow

Sue