The past week has definitely been above average in the thrifty
finds/utility china department. On the
advice of a fellow blogger (whose post I now can’t find) I spent Friday at Portobello
Road. I had a blast checking out all the
different stalls while sipping some mulled wine.
I couldn’t help but get a bit annoyed by some of the tourists that seem
to have no concept that there are in fact other people walking along the street
too. This is where the New Yorker comes
out of me and I start just walking through people after I’ve said excuse me and
been ignored more than twice. Once the
fruit market bit evolved into the boot sale bit most of the tourists seem to
have lost interest.
Towards the end, and actually not on Portobello Rd anymore, but on a
side street, I found a stall that was less a stall and more of a gathering of
about 30 boxes chuck full of plates, tea cups and random glass bits. I spent ages diligently picking through all
of it, minding the broken glass. I came up with two Barratts Delphanic Blue
bowls and four Johnson Bros Greydawn tea saucers. I was still working out in my head how much I
was willing to pay for each piece when they stall owner told me that it would
be £1
for the lot. I quickly handed him the
pound and moved on before he could change his mind!
This was a total rush and as I was checking out the other stalls I kept
thinking how finding that thing you really want from a thrift stop is a type of
drug. I began to wonder when I would get
my next fix and how I could make it happen more quickly. Does anyone else feel this way?
Luckily, I have eBay and several bits and pieces, all blue, found their
way to my home this week. The kind
mailman brought me a Woods Ware Iris teapot which we had won for just £5
in one package and in another I got 4 tea cups, two saucers, a bowl, bread
plate and a side plate.
Our last purchase was a Woods Ware Iris dinner plate. The picture here shows it against another
Iris piece. It’s not quite the same
shade of blue, but it’s not green either.
It’s a bit odd, but I still love it.
