Winterbooter

To Hook Road this morning for what might be my last car booter of the season. Mist not quite lifted when I got there and not many people, so it all looked a bit forlorn. But not many people were doing a fair amount of damage to the damp ground.

Stock average, but I failed to buy anything other than a demi-rye from the Polish baker.No charge for the blue plastic, so that particular regulation has not percolated through to car booters yet.

Came across the burnt out scooter illustrated left on the way out. Hard to tell how recent the fire was, but I would have thought within the last few days. Not clear how it came to be there at all, given that the arena is usually secured at night - or at least I assume that it is, being fully equipped with lockable gates. And the travellers operating the various fairs & such like check the hedges for holes, being rather down on other people who do not pay their way. Telephone reacted rather oddly to the light, coming up with a variety of shades & tones, none of them much like real life.

But the mist had turned the spiders' webs from lo-vis to hi-vis along the path at the back, leading to Hook Road. Particularly in the gorse bushes - perhaps because their spikes keep the predators off. All different shapes and sizes, some with spider in the middle and up to about a foot across, leading to inconsequential pondering about how the flipping of a few genes results in quite different web designs.

Last item on the way back being a young lady, this being about noon, coming back from an All Souls event, complete with some parts of her costume. Perhaps fifteen or so.