Bedraggled

I’d spotted there was a vide Grenier today in one of the villages near us. It was a cold drizzly morning, but I jostled Brian into wanting to go and see what treasures we could find.

We arrived there in the rain. The hastily written cardboard sign outside was looking a bit bedraggled, and didn’t give us much confidence, and the building looked a little empty and sad, but we decided to venture in, just in case. The venue was a modern village hall, or ‘Maison pour tous’. It was pleasant inside, and it was nice to see everyone was comfortable and in the warm, not occupying stalls in the cold and damp outside.

There was a real mixture of stalls. The initial few were selling kids toys and clothes, all in very good condition. The first stall that we stopped at was a young girl selling her unique style of pottery, but she also had a few pieces of nice bric-a-brac. We bought 3 little liquor glasses (like we need them!) and a Bakelite light switch, which will be great on an old lamp.

The next stall was a couple of ladies selling some very nicely washed and pressed linen. I got 12 plain white linen napkins with a laced corner for 5 euros, and an embroidered linen tablecloth and 12 more napkins for 20 euros. Perfect for a well laid table.

I then spotted a Crystal fruit/trifle bowl. Brian thought I was getting carried away at that point, so I refrained from buying it. But then he saw a gorgeous glass fruit bowl on a pressed metal stand. It would look great on a table to give some height. The man told me it was 12 euros. We agreed we would buy it, he then offered me the other bowl as well, for just 20 euros for the 2. Yes, thank you we will take the two. Oops!