Free

 I think ive developed a bit of a bad name at the car boot ..lol  Im well known for just giving stuff to people when theyre dithering about stuff , so yesterday me and the daughter did a get rid of the crap car boot , by 10.00 am i was totally bored so i started the grand giveaway , id made a good few quid so i was happy with that , its like circling vultures , first they ran off with the free tub ..lol it was on her stall in 10 minutes , a lot went to the next stallholders daughter , whos just bought a house so lots of pots and household stuff , then i got a lecture off some old bloke about encouraging the foreigners and yes they did take a few bits> Then theres the 'You Should Be Selling  That  Online brigade'.  I DONT CARE , it is not going to landfill , it saves people money and its nothing i need or want . Tomorrow its a couple of bags to various charity shops that actually accept donations.  Did i buy anything ? A couple of West German Planters that were hiding under a table not 10 feet away , were they a need?  like hell , but everybody should have beautiful things in their life and it doesnt have to be expensive . 

I may decide to put out the free table over the bank holiday depending on the weather , spread the love of crap folks !!!!

Bargain Hunting

 Toddled off to the little posh jumble on my own , only managed one sack full for the grand total of £6 ,  managed to sort 3 bits for myself all new with tags , a good quality new leather satchel that im sure one of them will flog on vinted and a couple of t shirts for sarcastic son that he didnt like the feel of , so more car boot stock from the pile that didnt fit ..lol 

Sunday it was carboot visiting with the whole tribe in tow , good job really because himself is quite useful as a glorified shopping trolley , a couple of brand new curver bins , a new pair of Clarks ankle boots , shrink wrapped socks for the winter , some posh make ..lol, even a craft kit to do on the camping trip, the dearest item was £2 . 

Then i had to do my auction pick up , there was a pair of Dunelm curtains that i have lusted after for a while so i got that lot , came with other curtains and a giant damask table cloth and once again you may as well buy a £1 lot because youve got to pick up anyway..lol well i keep telling myself that !  I did okay with the 4 boxes that came as the £1 lot , theyre always badly photographed which is why nobody wants them , pair of unused Edinburgh crystals champagne flutes , plus a marked crystal fruit bowl and another posh vase from a Turkish company, loads of little dip bowls , a box of studio pottery , all manner of strange items , even a huge set of windchimes , stack of boiling bowls , mason cash pie dishes all it said on this lot was household goods . Dont laugh the Dunelm tartan curtains were immaculate but huge , Patio door sized in fact....guess who doesnt have a patio door ? 

Wild Life

 If your a wildlife noticer  like me , id like to point out that seed trays or cat litter sized trays filled with just a couple of inches of water will help all manner of wildlife in the drought . I have a bowl of pebbles with water so that the bees and other little things can stop for a drink as well.

I have hedgehog problems  , Mr BH woke up in the night to find he had a bed companion , our big male hedgehog Dave hes hard to miss having albino patches  , there was much squealing and shouting from himself , but he was rescued and put outside , not himself though i was tempted . Then last night i was woken up at 4am by rustling noises from downstairs , assumed it was our timid cat come in through the window . Errr no it was a baby hedgehog gorging himself in our huge sack of cat stars , just sat in the sack looking very pleased with himself , when theyre tiny they are scared of nothing , it took 3 goes to get him out as he kept running back between my feet. They must be sneaking in at dusk when the doors are still open because of the heat , guess im going to have to look under the furniture with a torch at bedtime crafty buggers arent they . Some one did ask why we have so many of the prickly buggers , its because we have hedges and trees and bushes for cover , all the new builds have fencing and concrete bases so nothing can just wander in and out .

I also have a lot of bird variety's in the garden and ive noticed this year they are taking all the immature berries from the bushes like the elderberries , cottoneaster  and fuschias it really doesnt bode well for the winter if they have already eaten everything so im stocking up on bird food as well 

Sold

Well i managed  two days of carbooting and now im a helpless cripple..lol.. im getting there, but last night was hellish,  i couldnt even turn over in bed without sound effects getting up fpr the loo was interesting to say the least . It took me about 10 goes up and down the garden path to unspasm this morning with a rickety elderly cat helping  . Why this happens is baffling , the girls turned up for both and they did all the lumping and humping and were really useful . We had a  right giggle yesterday , we had the same girl from the one on Saturday next to us on the Sunday , sold a mountain of books from the book mountain at 50p , lots of bad pictures various crap from under the stairs . Loads of plants, i did a big tray of 50p houseplants , then sold garden plants on the Sunday  , gave me a giggle that the same woman bought tons of houseplants , pretends shes not trade then puts them in pretty pots and flogs them for tons of money in her antique booth , she did it last year . I dont mind they cost me virtually nothing , the plants do all the work ..lol  Best laugh is i always have a free box , this week we had 3 boxes one of damaged china , one of books and one of odd crap , one bloke took a bag of 90s map books he was going to use for crafting , various other folks took bits and bobs , but i came back from the loo and the girls were falling about laughing , two pensioners ran off with all the free stuff including the boxes !!!  Bit odd i had to find a new free box..lol.

Im really hoping we dont have to do any more this month , but with the big camping trip looming I need the cash , everything seems to be going on vehicle repairs at the moment