My mother (yes, her again) has been turning out the contents of various fully-stuffed cupboards and cabinets, and I happened to mention using tea-lights on my balcony. Cue one bag…
The embargo has lifted, I suppose, on items ‘donated’, offloaded or otherwise pressed upon me by my mother. The main limitation is how often I get to visit. Last trip…
Liking the Marie Curie charity shop in Belsize Park. Probably shouldn’t tell you this, but it seems to stock quite a lot of brand-new Cos stuff. Like this navy blue…
Before my last stint at a West London office, a quick raid on the nearby Oxfam Books at Turnham Green. £20 bought a bagful to keep me occupied over Easter……
There’s not much in my family by way of promised heirlooms – jewellery long gone, following a series of burglaries in the ’90s – and we never had any antiques…
While I can’t imagine the circumstances under which I might possibly even consider buying something new from Tommy Hilfiger (yeah, right) when an interesting piece turns up at a reasonable…
Did wonder why someone would donate a brand-new pair of really rather expensive Frye engineer boots (the full-height 12R) to a charity shop, and after a few painful outings, I…
Oh, and I found – as desired – some cheap plant pots on this North London suburban spree, too. The as-yet uninhabited ones here came from charity shops on Muswell…
My second discovery of the expedition was that it wasn’t too far to walk from East Finchley to the better-known territory of Muswell Hill, linking two areas in my mental…
I knew the charity shops of East Finchley were going to be dangerous. Set out with a few simple rules and aims in mind: a new party dress; a longer,…
