With storm Eowyn battering the lodge and the wheelie bins making a break for freedom, I sat cuddled into my fleecy heated blanket this morning and finished the final couple of chapters of this wonderful book.
I started reading it with snow lying on the ground, so it seemed very authentic to finish it with high winds whipping small items into the air all around our house. I could easily imagine the Winter long blizzards that battered the prairies and left the families battling to survive The Long Winter.
It was a very good read and is a book that I will be keeping to read again, perhaps next year if we have another storm. 😬
In other news we battled the storm to take some clothes and china from Mum's bungalow to the local Hospice shop this morning, but we got there at 9.20am and it didn't open until 9.30am. So we took refuge in Booths to wait with a cup of coffee and a toasted teacake. I obviously brought home the leftover sugar, sweetener and butter along with the unused napkin. It's my mission to gather in as many freebies as possible this year and document them for my own amusement.
On the way out the charity book table grabbed me and made me buy this book.
The manager was serving someone when we got into the charity shop so we stood waiting and these two items, hanging together just like this, caught my eye. A brand new Barbour t-shirt, original price £34.95, and a new Weird Fish fleece jacket, original price £60, but currently reduced in the sale to £40, for a combined cost of £19 ... and in my size.
It had to be done!!
So we went out to make a donation and I ended up spending £20, but what good bargains I got, I'm happy. 😁
Sue xx
Fantastic bargains 👍
ReplyDeleteFabulous buys and counts as one of your charity donations for 2025. We still being battered here in Hamilton-our daughter has lost fences on both sides of her garden. Stay safe and enjoy your new book. Catriona
ReplyDeleteI loved the Little House book series, as did my daughter and granddaughter. Maybe I will read them again as it’s been awhile since I read them. Great buys! Cali
ReplyDeleteFabulous bargains. We buy all our clothing, apart from underwear, this way. We've been doing it so long that I'm genuinely shocked and flabbergasted when I wander into a clothes shop and see how much stuff costs new.
ReplyDeleteI do wish we had Booths down south 🥹
When you get bargains like that it would be daft not to spend the money.
ReplyDeleteI am glad you have talked sternly to your dustbins. Mine are currently locked in the garage after having been told to think about their life choices and travel options, which do not include escaping from where they are usually coralled (and have never blown out of before).
You'd have been mad not to snaffle those bargains, what great finds!
ReplyDeleteWe walked back from the cinema earlier talking about how the town seemed to escaped from the storm unscathed only to discover a tree which had been brought down at the corner of the road and crashed into the flats beneath it. The man whose flat it was was very philosophical, saying that it was only possessions and he had a campervan to sleep in. xxx
Brilliant bargains and impossible to ignore ;) I'm still 2nd in the queue at the library for The Long Winter. It will be Spring at this rate before it comes in...lol...
ReplyDeleteAngie x