I am glad to say that I am still here to tell the tale and I had a really lovely day out. I nearly had to cry off this morning because I woke up feeling sick, but Pam arrived and I thought to hell with it. We have had a super time, both finding things which interested us. Pam was laughing as the Universe had sent her cockerels! She wanted a decorative cockerel to go in her kitchen as she bought a cockerel tray there last time. My goodness, they were EVERYWHERE! From nice ceramic cockerel teapots to enormous paper mache ones. She got a painted wooden one she liked, slim enough to go on her windowsill and a pair of little pottery salt and pepper pots with tiny cockerels on them. A few useful other bits for her kitchen revamp too.
Fortunately it wasn't too hot - not as hot as they said it would be anyway - and it was a bit cloudy, and a breeze blowing. Phew! I was worried about struggling in the extreme heat forecast (29 deg). It was very muggy though and stuffy inside the sheds.
We met some lovely sellers and at several stalls stopped and chatted for a while. Just doing that is lovely. I would have loved to have bought this sampler, but it was £150 (and worth it) and I couldn't justify it. There quite a few samplers on offer today, but I just took pictures.
A nice hand-sewn wholecloth quilt but my budget doesn't run to three figures on one item.
A cathedral window patchwork hanging.
A reasonably modern (judging by the base - 1930's/40s?) Orkney lambing chair, child sized. The drawer in the bottom is its real downfall. No quality there.
A lovely display from Ross Plants, as always. I managed to walk past without buying anything.
Some really lovely kitchenalia.
Painted blanket box. Modern paint job.
An early rather monotone early sampler. Sewn on Sundays only.
The original horse is long gone, but hey, it's a horse and cart all the same.
Sampler and a sewing skills framed piece. How things were back in the day. Such skills and which had been handed down through generations. The crafting of present times shows sewing skills of a different sort, now pin-tucked underwear or nighties are no longer made.
This lady always has a lovely stall, and I've photographed it before.
Finally, talking of leery. I have a contender for Worst Taxidermy, which may have triumphed over the fox, photographed below about 10 years ago! This is, apparently, looking at the front teefs, a beaver. I think they not only ran out of stuffing - it was very FLAT! - but also had to raid the doll's eyes box to finish it off!! I think he should have the crown!!
As a P.S. It is obvious that the side-effect of the new meds (mucous on lungs) is actually a chest infection or pollen on chest, not helping my breathing tonight (though I'm ok). So that is something sorted out and hopefully it will pass without too much intervention.
That was certainly not worth missing!! Glad you went after all
ReplyDeleteIt was like old times and there was almost a holiday vibe. Great day out.
ReplyDeletePleased you made it there and had such a great day. Did you buy the lead horse or had it gone. Xx
ReplyDeleteIf it was there I didn't see it, so I wasn't meant to have it. Bought other nice things instead.
ReplyDeleteLots of interesting things there. I really hate taxidermy, so those I'd not even look on! It does seem like you had a good time. Glad to read you're feeling better after the day out.
ReplyDeleteWell, the animals are looong dead, nothing you can do about it. The ones I hate are the Victorian animal schoolrooms with stuffed kittens and what have you. Worst one ever - a cheetah made into a suitcase. That disgusted me. These two I didn't find offensive, just amusing.
DeleteThat sounds like a good look round with interesting bits - apart from the flat beaver - he's very weird
ReplyDeleteGot knows why the seller bought him as a very limited market for bad taxidermy.
DeleteOoh such lovely things, apart from the beaver! That's the sort of thing you tell your kids about to scare them into behaving. I wonder if it got caught in an old fashioned mangle? hehe. Glad that you went and had fun. Best wishes Lisa.
ReplyDeleteThere were some really nice things there yesterday.
DeleteHow fun! Tho I do hope you are ok, breathing issues are so scary.
ReplyDeleteLoved poring over the stalls, tho this time saw nothing ''for me''. [tho...hearts, and blue and cream little cupboard!]
Why did you say the early faded silk sampler was worked on on Sundays only?
The taxidermy is so sad. I was surprised to see a beaver and looked it up, thinking they only exist in N America. Seems they were hunted to extinction in the 16th century but have been successfully reintroduced to UK. I hope you do show us what you bought?
Have a good dinner and a good cool evening.
Lizzy
Lungs better this morning so hopefully it will soon pass.
DeleteI can recall reading years ago that sewing a religious sampler was considered an appropriate task on long Sundays after Church. I am sure some of the all in black samplers fell into that category - using colours probably being considered too frivolous!
That all looks very tempting. The kitchenalia stall would have appealed to my mother. I've just been to look and yes one of my four carved round bread boards is very similar to the one in the photo though a lot more worn. It made me smile to see one for sale. I've also got one of those bone handled carving knives and simpler versions of the light wood salt box and a 6 egg holder sitting in a cupboard. My mother collected and I find it hard to de-clutter and yet I still buy the occasional piece of glass.
ReplyDeleteThat was a good stall. I have always loved the copper jelly moulds but they are difficult to display (which means I have too much china!!) Glass is not my thing - LOTS of big collections of bright green glass on offer yesterday - but like Cranberry glass, not good sellers.
DeleteThe painted blanket box is lovely! Beautiful photos.
ReplyDeleteCertainly colourful and practical.
DeleteSome very lovely stalls, how ever the taxidermy was very lacking in skills. In fact quite scary.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Less of the crap there yesterday, which was a positive.
DeleteWell done. I’m so tired/busy/run off my feet but I am reading. Am intending to leave S home alone for the first time since he came out of hospital 12 days ago. Only going 5 mins down to the village hall for my 90min yoga class which I’m in sore need of. And then later this morning a care home person is coming to assess S because I am going to need respite at some point soon and I’d rather know now that a care home will take him especially as he needs nursing care which we are funding and he now has quite advanced Parkinson’s following the infection which led to to seven and a half weeks in hospital. While this is happening I am expecting a Waitrose delivery. Only my second ever online supermarket delivery, the first was last Saturday. How times change. But slowing down, breathing, being outside in the garden (he slept for two hours yesterday afternoon and I was sitting in the shade under the trees with baby monitor and reading), sewing, knitting, pottering in the garden are all keeping me sane. But it’s going to be good to get out and he now wears a care line watch so I am allowed to leave him. Thank goodness we have alleviated the worst of the dribbling, drooling, swallowing problems by cutting right back on dairy foods. SALT came to the house last Thursday. She had no advice about diet or exercises or anything useful at all. On Monday during a home visit following our second ambulance call out (he was literally drowning in saliva and I was sitting up with all night keeping him propped up with my body weight) our GP had prescribed a medicine to dry up the saliva with a warning that it comes with awful side effects for Parkinson’s. That was delivered here on Thursday but I have not given it to him. Keep cool and hydrated BB. I’ll be watching our local Wiggonholt weather station closely today, although as we are on a hill we will be slightly cooler. Think of me tomorrow as S has his first ever face to face appt with a NHS neurologist in Chichester. A strong male friend is taking us as I could not possibly manage on my own. I think it will be a complete waste of time as the damage has been done. Feeling a bit down with it all if I’m honest. And I can see where the billions of money is wasted in our beloved NHS. One funny thing, S was referred to the community nurse by our GP (he has a sore patch on his btm and we could do with incontinence pads and non-slip socks - I have bought our own but apparently they should be supplied). The community nurses are organised used by a body called Sussex Community Foundation Trust and I got a text from them to say that the request had been rejected and refused because S is not known to the community nurse team. Will feel better after yoga I am sure. Sarah xx
ReplyDeleteOh my dear friend, my heart goes out to you as I know only too well every step of the journey you and S are on. Keith too, suddenly went into advanced Parkinsons when he was in hospital with Pneumonia. The problem with cutting out the Dairy (which I tried) was getting nutrition down him another way because Keith was such a fussy eater. I'm sorry that the SALT lady was a waste of rations - some people just aren't helpful. Oh goodness - it will be such a struggle getting S to Hospital for his appt. I hope that you can get the things you need SOON. SCFT sound like they aren't reading what they have been told by the COMMUNITY NURSE - as in who is emailing them?!! Please get care from the District Nurse team straight away for that sore patch as believe me they soon get a lot worse - Keith had terrible problems and I had to learn how to hold him up single handed and clean the area, change the dressing etc. It was an absolute nightmare.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy Yoga and I hope it helps you. If you ever need to get in touch, email me on boveybelle@yahoo.co.uk