Monday 18 March 2024

Bank Holiday Carboot Antiques Hunt.

 It's a Bank Holiday here in Ireland giving everyone a day off after Saint Patrick's Day.

The weather forecast was not good but we still got up earlier and drove for over an hour to a carboot sale on a dairy farm.  

Here's some photos for your perusal dear readers:





It wasn't very busy and began to rain and it's still quite bitter for the middle of March.

Here are some of our finds.  I am sure my American blog  friend (Life's  Funny Like That) Debby will like our boot finds?

More 1940s cottage ware consisting of a teapot and a biscuit barrel. A big Beswick Toby Jug for my brother who collects them.  Five pieces of blue Wedgewood pottery.  Look them up on Ebay to see their antique shop value.  What do you think they are worth?  Shall I tell you what we paid for them?

It was a good run out and we satisfied our hoarding addiction.  Have you been to any good carboot sales lately?  

Would any tv companies like to film an Irish Hoarders programme?

A vegetable post tomorrow again.  I bet you can't wait?



Sunday 17 March 2024

Artichokes Barter.

 "I'm going to see that Prog band Artichokes Barter this weekend".  

" Oh I saw them on their first tour supporting Steve Hillage at Stonehenge free festival".

No not really.  We got in contact with someone who had some Jerusalem Artichokes and they said they would give me some tubers in exchange for a big bag of well rotten fym.  I also gave them a small bag of seed potatoes and a Buddleia and a geranium.  

Every one was happy with our barter.  


They lived in a nice  housing estate and told me they had got tired of mowing their lawns and had replaced the grass with raised vegetable beds full of vegetables.

It was like Tom and Barbara Good had moved from Surbiton to Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช. 

Have you done any vegetable  barters recently?

 



Saturday 16 March 2024

A Great Gift For A Soil Slave.


 Number one son and his girlfriend went to the biggest carboot sale in Ireland in Kilkenny last weekend. 

They returned  and presented me with this wheelbarrow.  They paid 15 Euros for the beauty.  I got out the Brasso metal polish and gave it a good polish and it's taken pride of place with our eclectic and myriad of collectibles. It about a foot long from wheel to handles or shafts .  I have seen similar ones for sale for fifty Euros and more.

The wheelbarrow was invented by the ancient Chinese who also invented gunpowder and paper and fireworks to name just a few things.  It never ceases to amaze me how so much weight can be carried  by one wheel.

There are wheelbarrows mentioned in  England in the 13th century. Apparently it is derived from the word barrow  Mine is a beauty.  

Friday 15 March 2024

Wet, Wet, Wet Outside And Green Shoots Inside.


Half a wheelbarrow full of rain water.  It's been horrendously wet here this week.  You would not put a milk bottle outside in that weather.  If it was not for my polytunnel  I would be very fed up with the weather.  I have not even been for a long walk because it is always raining. 

Thankfully things are different  in the polytunnel:
The first potato shoots emerging from the ground.

Peas sprouting.


Onions๐ŸŒฐand Globe Artichokes.  I have never grown them (artichokes) before.  Have you? Apparently they are perennials and members of the thistle family.  I think I have planted far too many. Anyone want so globe artichokes plants for free?

It's traditional to plant potatoes around St Patrick's Day but things are very  very wet at present.   At least there are some growing in the polytunnel.

Thursday 14 March 2024

"I'll Never Find Another You".

 Sang the ram to the ewe.๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŽค

My dad would have been eighty nine this week. 

The Bachelors song "I Believe" the other day  really jogged my mental jukebox.   I will post a few bands in blog posts of some music that my dad and my mum use to listen to.  

He did not have a lot of records but now and again we would go to our local Woolworths store and come home with an LP of his choice.

Then he would place it on his radio gram and we would often sing along.  Perhaps you will post the songs your parents played when you were young?  It will be interesting to hear them on your blogs.

Here's one of my dad's old favourites:


What a voice.


Wednesday 13 March 2024

The Best Seat In The House.


 Heidi is still knackered after raising her ten beautiful ๐Ÿถ puppies.

She is looking forward to going to the beach and rescuing pebbles from the sea.  


 

Tuesday 12 March 2024

"I Believe".



 This was the sight when I went to feed and water the livestock on Sunday morning:

The Oxford sow had given birth to seven beautiful piglets.

I remember seeing The Bachelors with my mum and dad at the Floral Hall in Scarborough in the nineteen seventies.   My mum and dad were not singing with them I might add.๐Ÿ™‚
 
We sat on seats in the theatre and watched The Bachelors sing.  
One of their songs began playing on my mental jukebox when I saw the piglets:



They really could sing.


Bank Holiday Carboot Antiques Hunt.

 It's a Bank Holiday here in Ireland giving everyone a day off after Saint Patrick's Day. The weather forecast was not good but we s...