Spread said to come from Peru. Bread made from rye by a Polish flavoured baker and not bad at all; a sort of wimpish version of pumpernickel. War & Peace a complicated war game, here from the Avalon Hill Game Company of Baltimore, MD and played with small cardboard markers on up to four rather handsome boards. Maybe a complicated version of the 'Risk' which we used to play in years gone by - but also more educational in that you would learn a lot about the Napoleonic wars from playing this game. Pile of childrens' history books in French, a foreign version of the sort of thing that I used to have as a child. Lots of colour pictures of men with large moustaches doing dreadful deeds with battle axes and such like; just the thing for small boys. The father was not too pleased that his daughter knocked them down to me from £1 each to £5 for the dozen (or more) but, to give him his due, he honoured the sale. Twin Peaks DVD bought from an interestingly diverse family in honour of the very important conference that I once attended in the Washington State hotel which is featured in the opening credits. A sample thimble (see below). The long red scarf was a snip at 75p - vastly less than the cost of all the wool which someone put into it. Worn, I imagine, for decoration more than warmth, despite all that wool.
Things that got away included a boxed set of the Morse novels (books that is, rather than DVDs), still more or less in their plastic. What looked like the dispersal of a large & long standing collection of thimbles, the owner of which would not give me his email address and I did not think to give him mine, despite carrying a supply. A large, nearly new. laminated teak chopping board at a fiver (I am sure I have seen such things in shops for ten times that, but maybe they are out of fashion as I cannot find the thing in question this morning), but rather heavy to carry and I decided that it would be too much, given what I had already taken on. A rather splendid set of brass cooking weights at £35. Maybe started off their working lives in a shop. Nice to have, but not at that price or anything near it.
PS 1: the Avalon Hill Game Company seems to have moved from the real world to the heritage world. All Google can turn up is lots of peoples offering their games for sale, not the Avalon people themselves.
PS 2: an unwelcome intruder called widevine was vetted on start up by Norton this morning. Then there was a subtle but imperfect change in the blogger user interface. Are these things related? Will it be off to the BT help desk later today?
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