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3:22pm on Saturday, 14th October, 2023:
Anecdote
It was the village Sale Trail today. About 30 houses put stands outside their houses and sold stuff. I expect there would have been more if it'd been advertised better.
I was expecting most of the stalls to be selling the kind of tat you find at car boot sales, so mainly clothes, books and children's toys. This was pretty much the case, but around half of them had strangely-large amounts of other things. Some of them were factory-made and still in their packets, such as snowboarding gloves and keyrings; some weren't in their packets, such as heart-shaped bowls and wicker baskets; most were hand-made, such as candles, display boxes, knitwear, coasters, Christmas baubles, cupcakes and painted oyster shells (two stalls sold these). I hadn't realised there were so many cottage industries here.
I bought some jam from this place:
The chair is supposed to be a ladybird (ladybug to North Americans), not some throwback to more racist times.
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