We took the whole family down to the Dunton boot fair this past bank Holiday Monday. We didn't
leave home until about 10am and the bargain hunters get the best things at about
7am, so I wasn't expecting much. We didn't end up getting much of anything
useful, but I did find a few really nice things:
We always
seem to find great art materials, the box of Reeves acrylic paints and paint by
numbers were 50p together (the paints are RRP £11.45 on Amazon),
and the three little canvasses were £1, Little Lady has a really nice idea for
a kind of triptych for these. The orange book is the exercise book that Little
Lady uses at school for maths (30p) and the A3 paper is 100 sheets for £1 which
the kids can use for school projects.
I had a
quick flick through the recipes in the Flavours of India book (50p, but £8.95 here) and they looked quite
good, I am wary of buying cook books for recipes I would never try, but this
one looked like it had some reasonable suggestions at first glance.
The Sweet Poison Quit Plan by
David Gillespie (50p, £5.59 on Amazon), seemed very relevant to my attempts to
eat healthier and cut sugar at the moment and the promise on the blurb at the
back ("David Gillespie cut sugar from his diet he lost 6 stone - and it
kept it off) had me sold, it remains to be seen how good it is.
The third
book is Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can
Matter More Than IQ by Daniel Goleman. I think I am ok with
my EQ, but I read my degree in
Psychology 16 years ago and recently decided I would like to pick it up and
start reading around the subject again. This was £1 (£6.99 for the
paperback). Can someone tell me when I am going to read all of these books I keep buying?
Little Lady was very clear that she did not want to go along, but I
dragged her along anyway. We ended up spending a few hours chatting about
her school and friends and I bought her a few things: The little blue storage
baskets (50p for three), the golden coloured bracelet (50p), the very pretty
gold mirror (50p), I bought the black mirror for myself (20p), but will give it
away.
The big box that looks like a hatbox, is actually full of little
books: The Sugar & Spice...& All Things Nice (Box set) by Keda Black. Each book has a different ingredient or has
two ingredients, one on the front and when turned around one on the book.
The whole book then has recipes based on that main ingredient.
They are full of lovely pictures and the ingredients are luscious: chocolate,
mint, lemon, lime, green tea, orange flower water, cinnamon, white chocolate, strawberry,
chestnut, apricot, mango, summer berries, cherry, vanilla, caramel and nougat.
The recipes don't seem easy and have few ingredients. It cost me a
whole £1. I really don't have space to store this, but I am going to read
all of the little books just to learn about food and also see if the recipes
are any good (there is one for a Mango shrikhand dessert that looks lush). Amazon don't seem to have this new anymore except for
various used sets from £1.18 to £90 and a new set for £112, I have no idea what
the original price might have been.
I was happy enough with my haul and it will certainly keep us entertained.
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