Sunday, August 10, 2008
10th August. Bargains of the day.
The sun was shining at half past six this morning.
We decided that the car boot sale at Pease Pottage would most certainly be cancelled and so we went to Dorking and Horley.
We were actually mistaken - but one of our number definitely did not regret our decision.
Ekatarina has had another good car boot day.
In Dorking Ashley and Ecky found the very item that she had asked for last Christmas. It cost a lot from a shop and she had to go without - this morning it was found for £3.
It is a Polly Pocket ship with masses of accessories.
Later I added a magnetic Polly Pocket set - where the clothes are fixed with little magnets.
There were more books of course and other odds and ends, including a vast pile of Tracy Beaker magazines. Tracy Beaker is one of Ecky's favourite book characters at the moment and it is also now a TV series.
Sorting out the ship and the girls on board.
Lunch - with no time to turn away from Tracy Beaker magazines.
We decided that the car boot sale at Pease Pottage would most certainly be cancelled and so we went to Dorking and Horley.
We were actually mistaken - but one of our number definitely did not regret our decision.
Ekatarina has had another good car boot day.
In Dorking Ashley and Ecky found the very item that she had asked for last Christmas. It cost a lot from a shop and she had to go without - this morning it was found for £3.
It is a Polly Pocket ship with masses of accessories.
Later I added a magnetic Polly Pocket set - where the clothes are fixed with little magnets.
There were more books of course and other odds and ends, including a vast pile of Tracy Beaker magazines. Tracy Beaker is one of Ecky's favourite book characters at the moment and it is also now a TV series.
Sorting out the ship and the girls on board.
Lunch - with no time to turn away from Tracy Beaker magazines.
Ekatarina was fully absorbed and didn't really want another car boot sale, so Grandad stayed home with her and Ashley and I went alone to Blindley Heath.
We came back fully laden.
And I bought Ashley a coat - a brand new (with tags) leather coat with fleecy lining. The bargain of the day said that stall holder when he lowered the price to £10. I guess he was justified in the opinion.
But we knew better!
I bought very little for me. But Bill is pleased with a book about a little wartime airfield at Horne, which I had never heard of.
When we got back, Ekatarina had explored every item of accessory that came with the Polly Pocket ship.
The room was filled with memories of 2 small boys who managed to strew the floor from wall to wall with their playthings.
Though pink plastic Polly Pocket items had not been thought of then - and pink was never their choice of colour.
Bed time and Ekatarina proudly displays her feathery dream catcher.
I was yawning as I read another couple of chapters of the Stardust Spirits book - I am ready for bed too.
Goodnight.
