I love car boot sales!

May marks the start of the car boot sale season in my area. I love them to bits. Yes, I'm a thrifty blogger - there should be a button for that! Last year, I hardly got to go to any, so I was raring to go. The first one was fun and yielded lots of things off my list. Yes, I make a boot sale list. I find it helps to focus me, and stops me buying too much of stuff that I really don't have use for. The best bit, apart from the Yu-gi-oh cards for D S which kept him happy and quiet, was the big brown Victorian charger. It was the last purchase of the day, found while idly glancing at a stall while the others chose home baking. It had a ton of stuff on top of it, but there it was in perfect condition. Now it it one of my fruit dishes on the dresser, and looking good with the oranges. I always prefer to use stuff like this rather than put it in the cupboard. The blue plates are going to be my pudding dishes. Can you imagine eating apple crumble and custard from these on a cold winter night? I can! These came from the most amazing place a couple of miles away. It started as a sideline to the farm and has taken over. There is a huge barn piled high with furniture, and not for the faint hearted. The words health and safety have never been heard in this establishment. Tons of stuff lie on the ground, in old shopping trollies etc in the open air, getting wet and green with mould. These beautiful blue and white plates were lurking in shopping basket on the ground, an interesting shade of green. I pretty much fell in love with them at first sight. The guy said he bought them at a big country house sale, once the home of a famous Victorian prime minister. Perhaps Gladstone ate his pudding off them? Or maybe it was just a story. But they were made in Kirkcaldy and are early Victorian, so I'm happy with them. The colour makes me smile.

And so does this colour................................