Friday 29 December 2023

Turn it up and party down

It's the last weekend of the year, dear reader, and true to form I'm off today to leafy Chiswick in West London to go charity shopping with John-John. Then the rest of the weekend is merely a build-up to the Grand New Year's Eve Party chez nous!

Let's get things off to a flying start, shall we, in the company of the eternally-gyrating-but -never-quite-in-time Legs & Co, and the Players Association - and Thank Disco It's Almost New Year Friday!!

Hope your weekend goes well!

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  1. The sound stops at 0:28.

    Shopping, the Shirley Pitts way?

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    1. Fixed that. Now, with extra Dire Straits! Jx

      PS I hade to look up Miss Shirley Potts, as I'd never heard of her - but no, we were chairy shopping and no items were shoplifted (or indeed purchased; a dry day for picking up bargains among dead people's stylish clothes, methinks)

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  2. I lost sound at 24 and it came back at around 1:57, but badly. I think that might have been a good thing.

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    1. Players Association were fab, Legs and Co perhaps less so - but as I said to Mitzi, I have sorted it now with a new video... Jx

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  3. Thrift stores in San Francisco have been a dry well for years, maybe decades. I blame all the kids who figured out they could resell things they've scored at the thrift store.

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    1. There's always been a thriving market here for second-hand clothes. Every high street is peppered with charity shops, and then in trendy places like Covent Garden, Camden, Brick Lane and Dalston there are the huge "vintage" shops (which are not for charity), which is where the "cool kids" go for their - gulp - 80s/90s gear...

      I've found many bargains in both types over the years! Jx

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  4. I've never found anything really good at a thrift store, but I don't go shopping very often.

    Love,
    Janie

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    1. Like all such places, it's the "luck of the draw" on the very day you visit. John-John and I had no luck this time, but I can practically guarantee that if either of us lived nearer to Chiswick [the reason for singling out places like Chiswick, and nearer home, Muswell Hill is that they are affluent areas where people magnanimously give away better-quality stuff for charity than one finds in areas like our own locale Wood Green] and went frequently, there would be gems to be had.

      I can't walk past any charity shop anywhere without going in, just in case... Jx

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  5. Smashing shoes
    Glad you had a nice day even if you did come home empty handed, not even a cookery book for me but that's ok I am still relishing the Fanny you got me.

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    1. I did look for cookery books (and shoes) - but since you already have 300, gradually edging everything else off the bookshelves, I figured it would need to be special. Like Fanny (Cradock). Jx

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  6. "that's ok I am still relishing the Fanny you got me." - Bwah hah hah hah haaaa!

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    1. Oh, the Madam's a Fanny collector, dear... Jx

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