Old's Cool Traders: The Long Good Friday!

Friday!

Why can't every weekend be a 3 day weekend! We'd get so much done. Although for us we'd probably need to buy another shed for all the vintage picking time it would give us.

With a day off work on Friday we'd decided that (weather permitting!) we'd go on a bike ride to Starcross, via their charity shop, our favourite pub in Cockwood and back to Dawlish via Ellie's Attic in Dawlish Warren. Our summer doesn't seem to have started yet so we were very grateful that the sun came out. We had a great day and although we didn't find anything in the Starcross charity shop we had a wonderful time at the Ship Inn and bought some lovely vintage handbags and a very cool retro JVC mini hi-fi (CDs are the retro future remember!) from Ellie's Attic. The highlight had to be the little robins eating out of our hands at the pub, just perfect. The only downside was getting the hi-fi home on our bikes. Ouch! The bikes - and us - are still groaning now.

Saturday!

On Saturday we decided to go to Totnes and Teignmouth. The Totnes market and shops didn't disappoint as we bought some very cool 1960s art books, an original 1980s Athena Erotic Kiss print by Syd Brak and a very pretty brooch. On to Teignmouth we popped into Bella's Emporium where the lovely Keith Underhill gave us some cycling clips, Seeking Vintage where we picked up a very pretty antique silver nurse's belt and then onto Sound Preservation Society for a look around their vast selection of amazing vinyl. Along the way we picked up another iconic Athena 1980s print L'Enfant, this was on adorned on nearly every wall when we were growing up, some very cool velvet bow ties (a couple of which are still in their original box) and a Latvian doll dating from 1960s. Of course we dropped into our favourite pub in Teignmouth, The Blue Anchor, for a pint of their finest real cider.