my favourite thing...

Riddle: I spend my Saturday mornings tearing across a grassy field in my scruffiest clothes alongside like-minded individuals who I am none-the-less competing aggressively against. Its a great social experience but I'm there primarily for the win. Afterwards, I collapse, content and exhausted, into the long green grass and mull over the triumphs of the morning. I bemoan the one that got away. I gloat over the sneaky victory. I replay the key moments in my mind.

And yet I hate football, or any sport, for that matter.

Guessed it yet? I'm talking about Car Boot Sales. That glorious British tradition of stuffing a car full of junk and offloading it onto a bargain hunter such as myself after the exchange of hard-won cash. 

Here is my beloved York Racecourse car boot,
 viewed from the corner of the field
where I was sunning myself with my haul. 

Always an abundance of tea-cups

Who remembers tupperware?

[see first photo for this weeks trophies, including an antique antler complete with natural post-fight wonky mend, vintage post office sacks from train mail cars, and the most austere of grey square boxes on which is simply stamped 'please return to Carmelite monastary, Preston'. I can only assume this is not a plea to a runaway monk/primate[why are high-catholic officials called primates but monks don't get to be called monkeys-the world makes no sense].

p.s. If you like the look of my organic, neutral toned antique finds, head over to my vintage shop www.yorkvintage.co.uk or pop in to my mini-shop at The Flax and Twine on The Shambles, York [where I am selling the lush yellow embroidered linen laundry bag, amongst other treasures]

York Vintage gets real!

*YORK...THE PLACE WHERE DREAMS COME TRUE*

Its only been a couple of weeks since I opened my new online Etsy shop       

York Vintage  but already something very exciting is developing: 

no less than a pop-up shop at The Flax and Twine on the Shambles, York's oldest and most historical street. 

I'll be selling some great unique vintage and antique objets d'art, plus some carefully selected items of vintage furniture. The grand opening is next Friday evening [7th June] so do pop along if you fancy a browse. 

Can't quite believe this is happening, very excited to have my own real life retail space right in the heart of historic York. Excuse me whilst I pinch myself - again.

Ow - its real.