Rolling Acres Garage Sale - Saturday
So far so good. The variety of stuff bipeds will fork out for knows no bounds. Vermiculite; calcified seaweed; a table with one leaf; bookcases; mugs
; a fishbox full of rooted cuttings; pottery kitties; curtains; Lego; books; a piece of tweed; lamp oil and a lamp but not to the same person; a chair; pictures; plastic cutlery; muffin and loaf liners; ring binders; bits of timber and composite board; a Wormery (without worms); polystyrene beads; sundry plants in pots; a strange device for dispensing large quantities of thread to a sewing machine; pinboards; very sundry small knick-knacks…
Who knows what tomorrow will bring…
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Tomorrow here be dragons! Should be there late morning (after Archers fix). Hope there’s some good stuff left!
HA HA! I’ve got the best mug….Nyah, nyah, nyah NYAH, nyah…
We never doubted it - prettiest girl in Millport. Better than having a face that could curdle cream (if you have that expression up there)
oh thank you Les you are a true gentleman. now up here we refer to it as” a face like a skelped arse,” if the lady is a tad plain.
Or, if you prefer, you may refer to her as “looking as if she was chewing a wasp”
Face like a torn scone…
Five bob seems an awful lot for the ginger cat looking thing, but we won’t try to knock you down on the purrice Les. He comes with his own basket
Blimey landlady that was quick!
I don’t know about good SD, but there is certainly stuff left…
Thank goodness I live too far away! There is a man here who would relish the opportunity of noseying at your garage sale … we attend them frequently and always come away with something.
Sadly 
I am banned from buying mugs! Like the look of that laundry hamper though
….face like a slapped arse (maybe the same idea LL?) Or face like a bag of spanners. And on a Sunday too 
I always thought it was a ‘well-skelped erse’ - you pays your money and takes your pick.
Its definitely a Quiet Sunday today, but have made £25 so far. I hear a car door…
A car door! ….. See if you can grab it and I’ll double your takings. Some dozy old dear has just driven into the side of our car saying ‘Sorry, I didn’t see you’. It’s a bloody great Volvo estate, for god’sake probably one of the biggest cars on the road. Guess she was too busy feeding her guide dog on the passenger seat at the time.
…and it was Mr& Mrs Dragon I’m off to stir up the blackbirds…
I don’t think it was the right sort of car, Uncle Les, but you could always make them an offer!
FC - did you find anything interesting underneath our car? Are you planning to stowaway with us so you can stay in Orkney when your PUs leave for the Kingdom? Thanks to your PUs for the chairs - currently residing on our gin-and-tonic terrace. They are, as Mr Dragon says, the only matching chairs we have. now all we need is a kitchen big enough to put them in *sigh*.
How about a face like a melted wellie? There has been some idiot drivers(?) around today. Someone overtook about 4 vehicles as a bend in the road was rapidly approaching. Of course he went off the road. Fortunately only his dignity was damaged. Wonder if his fourwheel drive got him out of the undergrowth.
Oh I’m so glad you asked because I found some very intrestin’ whiffs of eau des petits chats on your undersides Mrs Dragon, and it quite made my day. So very fresh and excitin’. Dunno why I’m soundin’ like wot Just William does…
I’m vexed to think the teeny weeny space in your garage couldn’t fit the chairs…but then, purrhaps they need a bit of TLC before being allowed ingress 
I think, if we’re having a competition, then a face like a melted wellie will take some beating! 
I do hope that you and Marmers weren’t accidentally scooped up in the garage sale!
Perhaps you were detecting the 3 sisters who are 1 year old this week! Chairs are now in garage, and Mr Dragon is well-chuffed with his jumper! Success all round.
A Keillor marmalade jar. Oh FC, how could you sell that. I had one of those with pens in it, and smashed it only the other week. I would have given you a Good Price for it… a collector’s item.
Five bob for the ginger cat? I’ll say 5/6d, including basket and the stripy creature on the table. Must be useful for something…
Neither of us Plaid. Marmers made himself scarce whenever anyone turned up and every time I tried to hop up into other peeps’ vehicles I was dissuaded. 10/10 for purrseverance though
Happy Birthday Three Kits/We’re all chuffed to bits/You’are all fit and shiny/Happy birthday Three Kits!
I could tell you who bought it Jill, and then you could haggle over it to the manner born…it might be in a garage somewhere In The Country
What about the classic Fife expression “a face like a stopped clock”? This to render the idea of a person overwhelmed by suprise rather than ugliness.
Do you have anything left now? Just glad that you and Marmers didn’t get sold accidentely a la Toy Story 2.
I will be down in Orkney in September for a Wedding and wonder if there will be any car boot sales on then?
Don’t know about, “Like a stopped clock,” Barney. Where I came from it was, “A face that would stop a clock.” or even better,”A face that would curdle milk.”
i’m back online–will maybe do a car boot sale over here–i’ve so much junk!
If you’re very lucky mirlnlass (got it right this time 
) there may be a Dounby Booter. They’re by far the best. All others pale into insignificance! Sorry we won’t be here 
I got the best mug, Nyah, nyah…well you get the picture. Thank you so much FC, I will treasure it for ever. Why do I love kitsch so much? nothing on EBay is safe…
Kitties are delighted with their birthday song from Uncle FC! Prrrrr prrrrrrr prrrrrrr…..
I do like being Uncle EffCee to the Three Mouskiteers
So glad the mug arrived safely Yer Maj…surely you love kitsch because it begings ‘kit’
Ooooh, that gorg drop-leaf table would have squeezed in the back of my Freelander, though I suspect I might have had to leave Molly with you in order to get it home! And Edward would have had lots of lovely feline sniffs to enjoy.
Er, will you be having a sale on 17 June?
I always thought AW was a lovely old man who wrote about lakeland fells. Didn’t realise AW was in Orkney nowadays. Someone please tell Julia Bradbury!
Oh no! We sold it to a dealer for a tenner and he was going to take it sooth forthwith! Are you suggesting that mpu looks like AW? 
Well I have it on good authority that that Julia Bradbury won’t be allowed within a radius of three miles of him, not if fpu has anything to do with it!
17 June 
I’ll have that bearded ornament you’ve been dusting around for that last twenty odd years when you’ve finished with him, but I suspect you’ll be operating a scorched earth policy in that regard.
Face like a wet Wednesday in Wigan, is another one which I garnered from the lunatics I shared a flat with in 1974.
I’m putting the gin on to simmer now, so as to be ready for y’all.
The bearded ornament will be informed of your state of readiness when he returns from Boat Museum meeting. About which he has suspicions…
Who the hick-boo is AW????
17th June is when TSM, Molly Moo and I will be in Orkney if well-laid plans are permitted to be implemented as per.
Alas poor Barney, another BBC iPlayer boo-hoo for you. AW = Alfred Wainwright. See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/7977672.stm
T’anx, 4X.
I now have a rather disturbing vision of Mister Fourex digging a big ‘ole, holding aloft the bleached skull of a former Master Mariner…
Alas, poor Barney, I knew him well.
But why? Is it a crime, heinous, of the first water, unforgivable, not to know who AW is? Or is you imagination unusually riotious this breezy, blowy day in May? EffCee, you are an enigma….
I was going to ask if they were any relation to Louden Wainwright the third, or indeed Rufus Wainwright, whose version of Hallelujah makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up….
don’t worry barney–i don’t know the wainwright chap either
Now do pay attention Cap’n Yorick. Just calm down and take a puff on your little Hamlet whilst chilling out to Air on a G String…
Ignorance is no defence. I should know Although being incatcerated in La Belle France all those years is certainly a good excuse!
(This message comes to you as me and Marmers sit in Big Cage, contemplating five weary days of imprisonment…)
Jings you lot had me confused - how did you get from Auntie Wainwright to Alfred Wainright? There was me thinking fpu had been taking lessons from Norman Clegg’s bane….
T’anx, Mia. I think EffCee is just a bit bored in the BC and is shooting off at all and sundry, keeping the paw in, as it were.
oor wullie and four cat gang are in sympathy with fc and marmers they been in big cage for six months
FC, TSM’s updated her blog and it might have been written just for you! I’m sure you’ll approve of her jottings.
I have a neighbor who would take a marmalade cat with a Trust Fund. Does you side-kick have Money in the Bank? # Folding chair, 1st pic. top, looks like one we bought when we were graduate students: a real antique, then. The fabric looks somewhat discolored: what do you expect from a household which does not keep its cats confined to the great outdoors!? That should knock the price down. How about a ha’penny? (including shipping of course).
Not likely, Mjc, EffCee’s fpu keeps her ha’penny well out of reach of the likes of us. EffCee writ it large somewhere. Of course, if she were to have two, things might change?
Are you shifting VERY soon, Fc??
FC was the Garage included in your 25 Pounds Landlady.
Hows about 1 bagger and 2 bagger incase the first gets torn. (Ugly I Mean)
Well here we are again. What a glorious day to be set free from durance vile, even if a day later than we were purromised. Goodness knows why. I expect we shall be told in due course…
I’ll have you know those folding director’s chairs are fond relics of a trip to Habitat many moons ago and the discolouration is nothing whatsoever to do with any Rolling Acres feline. The very idea. I’m hoose-trained as is Marmers. If you want to pay his relocation charges to Indiana, just send the cheque and we’ll send him by return!
I think it would be very wise of mpu to keep fpu well out of the reach of a certain salty sea dog, just in case her hand slipped…
Surely the return from (where?) of such a famous feline deserves a full fanfare in the form of a proper post rather than being snuck away as comment 47 on a post about selling junk? Maybe you are trying to be unobtrusive (yeah right 
)
But my dear Uncle, I have a reputation to keep up. I simply cannot be seen to be rushing in and spilling my guts to every Thomasina, Dickette and Harriet on the www. Tsk!
JUNK 
I shall NOT say goodbye EffCee. I will just wish you( and Marmers, and both bi-peds) health, happiness and maybe, just maybe though, one day our paths will cross. Cheery….
I sincerely hope so Tws. It has long been a wish of fpu’s to meet your fair self, Calum, Soaplady, Island Threads, Fred and other islandbloggers on Lewis.
We’re no’ awa’ tae bide awa’/We’re no’ awa’ tae leave ye/We’re no’ awa’ tae bide awa’/We’ll aye come back and see ye. Unless we’re pit oot 
Well of course people will pay good money for
junkpre-owned collectibles!I’ll give you five bob for that ginger cat looking thing.