I wanted to get set up early, and was awake at about 6am after having a great night's sleep, so I felt a lot better than last night! Keith set up an ingenious solution for hanging Sophie's unwanted clothes - a step ladder with a broom pole attached which acted as a clothesline! Vince and Sue next door had gone out for the day and said we were more than welcome to use their drive, so we put Sophie's car there, giving us more room to display our wares!
By 9am, just after we'd finished setting up, people were already coming around to look at what we were selling. This happened last time so we weren't caught unawares! From 9am onwards we had a steady stream of people and it was lovely to chat with some of them, including a woman who used to look after Sophie when she was a baby!
The sale was on until 3pm, and Sophie did most of the work, bless her, while I pottered about in the background! By 2pm we felt it was all over and we'd made about £50! Not as much as last time, but well over the amount we needed to cover the price of having the garage sale, and above all it was fun. It was great to see some stuff go, as well, including towels that had been hanging around for years!
After we'd brought everything in, Sophie and I went down to Dobbies in Wootton and Sophie bought a birthday card, a gift bag and some treats for Laura who was celebrating her birthday last week. She is going out for lunch with Laura and Daisy tomorrow at Farndon Fields.
Back home I had a nap, and then it was cocktail time and a game of Scrabble! Keith joined us and helped Sophie, but I still won!
Dinner tonight was a barbecue and afterwards, we watched In The Heat of the Night, starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger, which is one of my favourite films. Sophie was a bit uncomfortable with the language used in the film, but it was made in 1967, well before such terms were deemed completely unacceptable!
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