After a very cold and grey Saturday, Sunday turned out to be a wonderfully hot and sunny day, ideal Car Boot Sale weather. I did wonder if the car boot would be cancelled again like it was on Thursday, but took a chance that a few days of reasonably dry-ish weather would have helped to dry the fields out. Well, it had to a certain extent, but there were still HUGE puddles about and parts of the second field were roped off. Even the bits where cars were parked and people were walking up and down the rows was a bit like walking or wading through wet spinach. The grass is really rather long there at the moment and it was still pretty sodden and I, stupidly enough, had worn open-toed sandals!! At least it kept my feet cool but the bottom of my jeans were so wet and mud-spattered that they had to go straight in the wash when I got home.
I got the usual pile of books which had looked very promising for re-sale at the car boot, but which on checking them out on Amazon turned out to be complete duds - why someone would want to sell an 850 page psychology tome for 25p is beyond me, but there you go - there's nought stranger than folk!!
I also got a Power Rangers dressing up kit for DN for £1, he's VERY into dressing up at the moment and I don't think he's got a Power Rangers kit so that was a good find. I also got myself a nice T-shirt top for 20p. I hadn't noticed the small bleach mark on the front when I bought it but at that price I'm not going to complain, and the top does fit rather well and is a very pleasing shape.
But, oddly enough, there were loads and loads of really good bargains on toiletries yesterday. I do like nice toiletries - Body Shop, Lush, and Molton Brown being among my favourites - although I usually make do with Aldi shower gel and Boots own shampoo. I got the selection in the photo for the grand total of £2, (and that included a make-up bag, a bath lily, a large bottle of bath milk and a bottle of body moisturiser, all of which have gone to the local charity shop as I don't use them). For my own use I got a large bottle of Molton Brown shower wash (slightly used but I'm not worried about that) which has the most fabulous scent, a small bottle of Epherem Shampoo, a large and a travel size bottle of Body Shop White Musk shower wash (my favourite of the Body Shop scents), and a bottle of Boots shower wash. That lot will help me to keep smelling sweet for a little while yet!!
Wow, that molton brown was a find and a half! I love that stuff - well done !
Posted by: asti | 06/20/2008 at 05:44 PM