'Plank' goodness for the Bank Holiday!

 

In Brixham

 What a weekend! A long one too, thanks to the Bank Holiday! 

On Saturday we sailed off to The Pirate Festival in Brixham via a charity shopping spree in Paignton first. Our spree was really successful and we added to our vintage clothing collection by picking up a 1960s tweed jacket, 1960s maximum dress and a couple of lovely vintage handbags.

We had decided we wanted to be in Brixham for midday and despite the bus station being full of pirates waiting for the bus too (who knew pirates got the bus eh?) we got on one fairly easily. We were really excited as we'd heard lots of good things about Brixham and it didn't disappoint. Brixham's traditionally a very pretty fishing town renowned for smugglers. Over the last 11 years the whole town's embraced the Pirate Festival and everywhere you look there's pirates! Pirate shopkeepers, pirate babies, pirate dogs, pirate belly dancers...you name it!

The Pirate Festival

We watched a pirate reenactment which included gun powder and lots of smoke and some great pirate bands including Dolmen. Shiver me timbers Jack Sparrow would have enjoyed them.

Sunday was a day of gardening and then on Bank Holiday Monday we got ourselves ready for a brand new antiques fair that we're trading at next Sunday. We measured our table space and spent an hour or three deciding what to take. As it's the first time we've done a fair at the Langstone Cliff Hotel (Dawlish Warren) we really want to cover all bases so we'll be bringing along some vintage handbags, 1950s French fashion magazines, vintage costume jewellery and a handmade vintage football rattle for all those Liverpool fans out there...fingers crossed we've got it right! Pop along this coming Sunday and let us know.



Some of our stock for next Sunday's fair