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C_J

My younger daughter has been yearning for a vintage cane and bamboo dressing table set for the main bedroom in the house she and her husband bought earlier this year, but has no spare money just now due to renovations on the house plus having had my granddaughter and still being on maternity leave. 

I have been looking out for one as I would love to buy her a little treat - but boy are they expensive!  Quite by serendipity I wandered into the Sobell House warehouse in Bicester, a place that is 95% rubbish most of the time, but then spotted this little beauty which was exactly what my daughter was after and was priced at £25! 

I managed to shoehorn it into my car, too!   She was delighted 😀😀

Rosa_Damascena

Great price, @C_J !

Wednesday2000

C_J said:

My younger daughter has been yearning for a vintage cane and bamboo dressing table set for the main bedroom in the house she and her husband bought earlier this year, but has no spare money just now due to renovations on the house plus having had my granddaughter and still being on maternity leave. 

I have been looking out for one as I would love to buy her a little treat - but boy are they expensive!  Quite by serendipity I wandered into the Sobell House warehouse in Bicester, a place that is 95% rubbish most of the time, but then spotted this little beauty which was exactly what my daughter was after and was priced at £25! 

I managed to shoehorn it into my car, too!   She was delighted 😀😀

Very nice!

Rosa_Damascena

I had a good impromptu chazzer session in a local town yesterday. In one shop I bought 3 books and a jigsaw puzzle for gifting for £2; in another a book I had wanted to read for quite some time, 4 good quality wine glasses and this devoré dress (M&S Collection) which at £6 is more than I would usually spend. Not yet tried it on:

Potternerd

Yet another denim dress. This one is from Next, light blue with metal jeans style buttons all down the front. It is just on the knee and has small puff sleeves (not like Anne Walker in Gentleman Jack) which finish just above the elbows £5.
A corduroy denim jacket style jacket by Noisy May in what I would describe as raw egg yolk yellow. Still has part of the tags on £5. It’s not a colour I would normally go for but I have a pale pink cord one which i wear a lot so I do like the style. I was wearing a black T-shirt when I tried it on and it looked rather nice with black. 

Another French Foreign Legion type hat for DGS £1
And 4 really cute tiny stacking bowls going from white to light blue, mid blue and navy. Not quite sure what I’ll use them for but at 50p it seemed rude not to.
on the plus side I managed not to buy any bags or shoes😜

wondercollie

FFL hats are known as Kepi's.   We had a relative that was in the FFL

goldfinches

wondercollie said:

FFL hats are known as Kepi's.   We had a relative that was in the FFL

I'm fascinated by this piece of information and and feel it is my reward for early rising! I implore you to tell enquiring minds more, please.

Meanwhile, I have managed to stay out of the shops so can record four NSDs with respect to chazza browsing, however my Kindle account has taken rather a beating so I'm not quite as frugal as I'd like to be yet!

DigForVictory

If I may lead you astray down an unverified but riveting rabbithole on kepis, it Wasn't Just The French. DGS can pretend to be a wide range of things, including a 1970s British Rail employee...
The sort with the wholly sensible flap over the back of the neck is a harder sell as uniform - there was a "neck curtain" & also a cover for a kepi to hide what colour & insignia etc it had... The neck curtain "ceased to be worn from about 1916 although it survived in the newly raised French Legion Cavalry regiment until the 1920s." Frankly, I think everyone under 15 should be issued with them as sunburn on a child can get severe quite easily & the little darlings both wriggle & run faster than many parents (hampered by a bottle of sunscreen in one hand).

Sorry. My Inner Historian escaped. Rousing cheers for military surplus for affordable & very natty headgear in a wide range of sizes, as well as fancy dress, affordable all wool overcoats (check out surplus shops now, avoid the winter fuel bill rush) & clothing the cherubs can commit atrocities in without causing massive sartorial dismay. Much is squaddie proof, & what isn't is fairly obviously ceremonial. Although mistakes can be made - says she who picked blackberries into an uncle's solar topee, clutching it by the neckstrap. Ooops.

Miró

Did a quick fly by Thirsk yesterday and got a pair of black ballerina type flats in a heavy duty sort of mesh fabric…..(air con for the feet!).  B/N and £3.25.  Was hoping to Google and find they originally cost multi-several pounds……£12.99 pffft!  Still pleased tho  . Hope everyone is managing to cope with this heat…..v. v. weak, long g & t’s & bucketloads of 4711 is my strategy.  The former for chugging down and the latter for throwing over self!

Pollycat

Been to 5 charity shops this morning.
Bought 4 paperbacks: John Grisham, Val McDermid, 2 X Lee Child. 50p each.
A James Pringle 100% wool scarf in a pale tartan for £1.00 Sue Ryder and a 100% silk scarf from local hospice £1.50.
Not sure about the bird...