Life on the Longmead

The tree illustrated caught my eye on the way back from the first car booter of the season. This tree was certainly not of the giving up kind, despite the no doubt dubious goings on on the path to the left after dark, despite recent improvement works by the council. The path on the left being the boundary between the former council estate on the right and the new houses on mental hospital land to the left.

A cynic might say that the rich customers lived on the left while the poor dealers lived on the right, making the path a convenient place to do business. Bring on legalisation! And let the people who used to live in the hospital fend for themselves. Learn to stand on their own two feet.

Car booter quiet, with both customers and sellers caught out by it not being the first bank holiday of the year, the traditional day for the opening of the season and perhaps put off by the cold and the cloud. But I managed a couple of DVDs, one for the good price of 50p and one for £1, one of those 2 disc presentation efforts, chock full of all those extra features which we never watch. Interviews with the second gaffer about the camera angles and all that sort of thing. I shall return to these DVDs in due course.

Carpet seller from last year was there again but I was in too much of a hurry to ask his prices - his stuff looking a little tired, but decent enough. A man to keep an eye on.