Saturday for no apparent reason I had been plagued by bad dreams all night. One where Davies had gone off from somewhere, not knowing the area and with no way of us contacting him so we were frantically driving the streets looking for him. I woke up before we found him 🙁 Then I dreamt that Ady had not come home from work despite it being really late and getting dark, his phone was doing strange things when I tried to ring him including letting me listen to his other voicemail messages all of which were people trying to get hold of him suggesting he’d been missing all day. Then I’d realised I’d not put the birds away and when I did there was a fox hiding under the hen house. And I was trying to hold everything together and not let the kids know I was scared. And then I woke up. So not very restful 🙁
Dad came over in the morning, which sort of put paid to anything else happening really. He had breakfast with us and then stayed for lunch so my plans to do some baking for the party we were off to never really happened. It was nice to sit and chat to Dad though so baking not happening was a small price to pay.
We all sat and watched our opposite neighbours do something interesting with their roof involving taking off fascias and soffits and lifting tiles and batons and felt and replacing some bits. We chose to create a running commentary of what we thought they might be saying which amused us all greatly :).
Dad left, Ady and I loaded my car up ready for the morning and eventually set off for Caz and Bid’s via Sainsburys for ‘we haven’t made any food but here is some we bought’ supplies.
Caz and Bid were having a Housewarming / Caz is 40 / beginning of a new era type party and we either knew or had heard of most of the people there. Davies and Scarlett got instantly lost in the throng and had a great time from when we arrived to when we dragged them away at the end.
Ady and I chatted, hung out with and generally enjoyed the surroundings, company and atmosphere – it was fab 🙂 particularly some very cool friends who do circus stuff like poi and staff and did it after dark with fire which was awesome, particularly A, their 9 year old boy who does a fab fire staff flames roaring thing :).
We had to leave at 9pm, having been intending to leave at 8pm as we were due to get up a stupid o’clock today. Dad had nipped over to put the birds away for us so I did toast and hosing down of children and got them to bed to be closely followed by us.
Sunday began on what I personally classify as still Saturday night 😉 530am.
I took my pre loaded car over to my parents, with Ady and the kids following behind and we dropped them off with Dad, who was up and had aleady drained his first cup of coffee this time.
We arrived, braved the now traditional light rain shower and got set up. We had the same pitch as before and spread ourselves out nicely. The same bloke sidled up to ask about lego and we recognised at least one repeat customer who came back to buy more educational resources type stuff from us and asked why we were clearing stuff and showed lots of enthusiasm for our planned WWOOFing adventure :).
We sold the Dora house and the Micromachines to people with grandchildren coming to stay, Scarlett’s old dressing table to a little girl who took it ‘dressed’. I’d put loads of beads and bangles dripping out of the drawers, some pink hair combs on the top and sold it for £1 or £1.50 with everything on it :). We got shot of our ‘Spiderman corner’ of a lamp, hat, sweatband and 2008 annual to a little kid in a pushchair who already had about 6 items of Spiderman merchandise and both sets of waterproof dungarees to parents who promised faithfully their children would splash in many, many muddle puddles in them (Ady was a bit sentimental about letting them go :)).
But my happiest moment of all was a woman who had bought a load of dressing up stuff from us two weeks ago that I had found more bits of (hat for one outfit, body for another) in Davies’ room and felt really bad that I’d sold most of it without the rest. She took the remainder for a pound and I am so pleased to think the outfits will be reunited….maybe I’ve seen too many Toy Story films 😆
We got rid of a lot more and made nearly £90 which was just over £80 when we took out the £8 pitch fee. We also brought the kettle, some tea bags, a pint of milk, some mugs and little stove and had freshly brewed tea which made the morning oh so much more tolerable :).
We had one sack of soft toys and one of clothes and three boxes of stuff to give to my Mum for her charity shop, a couple of small boxes to bring home and all the rest went :). Our plan is to do one more before the end of the car boot season and do some more ebaying alongside. Very pleased to have raised £250 already from ebaying and carbooting.
Back at my parents we had lunch, the kids were pleased to see us and rather droopy so we stayed for a couple of hours and then came home. Davies was craving some space so went to his room to Xbox for a while, Scarlett sat with me and learnt how to knit and they both had baths. They ahd dinner and we all watched Countryfile before they went to bed, we had baths and then watched Vexed while eating our dinner.
Ady is working tomorrrow for the morning at least but the rest of us will mostly be sleeping I suspect!