Vintage

"The Country Diary Of An Edwardian Lady" is one of my favorite books and I try to read a page or two each night and the illustrations are so nice,

"change not a clout till May is out"

this is so true!!

I love this quote starting in May,

"A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay,

A swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon,

A swarm of bees in July is not worth a fly"

I was browsing through a magazine when  I saw a vintage shop advertised so me and a friend jumped in the car and set off to find it.

"My Vintage World"  wasn't hard to find once we found the street and the window was vintageness at it's very best!!

Look at that picnic hamper,

inside the  shop the dressers were full of plates,

the tables were groaning under the weight of china,

 and the cupboards were packed with kitchen ware, 

who remembers Vim scouring powder??

Tea trolleys, baskets, linen,

pretty brooches,

tea pots and  sugar bowls, does anyone still use these? I've seen them filled with candles and they look lovely burning away.

Little chairs, wooly blankets, bobbins of cotton in fact you name it and it was there. I could have bought the whole shop it was so lovely and the owner Catherine couldn't have been more helpful or friendly, I can't wait to go back.

That lovely Brexton picnic hamper just had to come home with me along with a few other goodies,

 I need another cup as one was missing, anyone got a spare?

and I got this lovely trio with lilly of the valley on, just right for a cuppa on a sunny May afternoon, a couple of reels of cotton and a packet of "snowfire" that says it "sooths and heals"...

My Vintage World,
Sowerby Road,
Thirsk,
North Yorkshire

Lucey X