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Car booty 21/04/2014

The Easter bank holiday weekend is usually pretty good for car boot sales, but the weather caused both the first Pease Pottage sale of the year (yesterday) and the second Rusper sale of the year (today) to be cancelled. I … Continue reading

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Car booty 13/04/2014

Today I took the family to our first car boot sale of 2014 at Rusper. (They’d tried to open last week but cancelled on the day as the weather was changeable and the field hadn’t fully dried out. This week … Continue reading

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Car booty 08/09/2013

Today we were hoping to go to Sayers Common or Rusper, to spend some money I got for my birthday, but as both were rained off we ended up at Pease Pottage. With the threat of rain the field wasn’t … Continue reading

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Car booty 26/08/2013

Today we went to the local car boot sale. I wasn’t expecting much, as previous sales have been almost completely devoid of tools, but I was pleasantly surprised. The star find of the day was my first purchase: Nobex Proman … Continue reading

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Car booty 07/07/2013 – Part 2 – Rusper

After a quick dash around Pease Pottage I got back on the road for the short hop to another car boot sale. Rusper This was the first time I’ve ever been to Rusper car boot sale, which starts much later … Continue reading

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Car booty – 07/07/2013 – Part 1 – Pease Pottage

Today I had to look after my youngest daughter while my wife took my eldest to a dance show in Crawley. I decided to also make my way over to Crawley – via a couple of car boot sales – … Continue reading

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Car booty – 30/06/2013

I’ve decided to split off the Car Booty posts to a different blog as it’s often not clear which of my woodworking or metalworking blogs the posts should go on. I’ll probably copy over the previous posts in the series … Continue reading

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Weekend update

I didn’t get any time in the workshop during the week. Yesterday was spent at a family birthday in a rural village hall, where I noticed this rather nice little toggle/latch, holding a long trestle table against the wall: Something … Continue reading

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Car booty – 02/06/2013

Today I went to Sayers Common car boot sale with my youngest daughter while my wife took our eldest daughter to a party. We’ve not been since April, when we were very impressed, so I had quite high hopes and … Continue reading

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Car booty – 05/05/2013

Today we were planning to go to the Sayers Common car boot sale, which doesn’t open for buyers until 10am. By some miraculous accident we were ready to go long before that, so we decided that rather than killing an … Continue reading

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