Waking up bright and early to a rather gray day, decided to Horton Lane Clockwise it to the Arena to take a peek at the car booter at opening time. We get there at about 0715 find that the main selling area (blue) to had been filled up and that they were starting on the subsidiary area (green). We learned later that to get a middle slot in the main area one needed to be at the gates at around 0600.
Paying 50p each, we were let in to the main area to start inspecting the goods, with the chap who sells popular & more exotic vinyl occupying, as usual, the pole position. We wondered whether he was the management or, at least, had some deal with the management. Either that or he was a consistently early riser. Got off to an early start, buying myself the collected works of Inspector Morse in the DVD edition, apprently the product of more than one boxed set. The seller had even gone to the bother to complete the set by buying the missing disc 29 from Ebay, albeit a DVD from a different edition. Between a third and a half of them were still unplayed in their plastic - not unlike boxed sets of vinyl in that regard - and I thought I had done quite well at 45p a disc. We were also intrigued how we got to 33 discs, given that the paperback of one of them which we had recently been given talked of around 15. Perhaps some of the 15 were collections of short stories, puffed up into full length stories with the addition of stock local colour. See 30th June for the last report here on the subject.
At this point we thought it only fair to break off to go through the south eastern exit and tell the ladies of the party that a car booter was available, to find that, following my report of 7th May, the council had sent in the diggers and were doing something about the path there. This was good news, although we were unsure about the wisdom of planting young broadleaf trees on the top of a new embankment, the sort of thing intended around here to stop the ingress and setting up camp of unwanted caravans. Clearly need to keep an eye on progress.
Duly returned after breakfast, parking in the now more or less full red area. Paid our 50p's again to gain access to the green area, now up and running, and off we went to do the thing properly. There followed a leisurely stroll around maybe half of the stalls available, it now having by now become a rather hot morning. Plenty of interesting sights both on, and on both sides of the stalls. I managed one further purchase of note, to wit, a different version of the Siegfried story to that offered by Mr. Hatto (see, for example, June 29th 2010 in the other place). This one was offered by Dora Ford Madeley in an illustrated edition published by Harrap in 1910, complete with sundry wild flowers pressed into it by a previous owner. Clearly a brilliant spot as Abebooks would have sold me one from the very same edition in a similar condition for £19, 19 times what I actually paid, or another in good condition for £39.67p (plus P&P). Alternatively, Rooke Books offer one from the rather superior edition of 1848, for which they want £99.99p.
I shall report further in due course.
On second exit, spotted two cars of interest. First, a police car, presumably there on some kind of business. Second, a Version 8 Mustang with the number plate 'V8 MUS'. How much for the two?
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