Tag Archives: car boot
London’s Best Car Boot Sales
Whenever we leave London for a countryside adventure we make it a priority to visit car boot sales – there is nothing like scrabbling around a windy field in someone else’s rural junk. It is such a different kind of … Continue reading
Campervan thrifting and the inauguration of Betty
We always owned a VW camper when I was a kid, we’d scamp off from school a bit early and spend the whole summer trekking around Europe, hitting up spots as distant and exotic as Hungry, the Czech Republic and … Continue reading
Posted in Finding things, Thrifty
Tagged campervan, car boot, fair, magpie monday, sales, vanagon, vw, west sussex, westfalia
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Car Boot Who’s Who
We made the most of today’s glimpse of sun by getting ourselves to the Hayes Street Farm car boot fair. We weren’t expecting much seeing as it is just out of the London ‘burbs but it turned out to be … Continue reading
Posted in Finding things, Our recycled home
Tagged car boot, carboot, characters, fair, farm, hayes, kent, london, sale, street, uk, who's who
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Car Boot Sale: Vintage plates, lace and carpet skates
You know how you tend to hang around with people who like doing similar things to you? As EIGHT of us hopped off the bus into the bustle of a South London car boot sale I wondered if this was … Continue reading
Posted in Finding things, Our recycled home, Thrifty
Tagged car boot, carboot, jumble, junk, plates, sales, vintage
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