Sunday Buffet

Things I bought this week

News from last weekend: the circus lived up to expectations.

If you get the chance to see Giffords Circus you MUST go — you hear me? Bossy finger wagging in your face. You must go.

Giffords Circus

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New living room update

I am enjoying the view through our new indoor window. Why does a plan chest look pretty nice in real life, but even better when you see it through an inside window? (And I am still loving the dolls house I made into a lamp.)

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Telly/ Film picks

Night Coppers on Channel 4, I mean the title alone gives me so much joy. Look at how the Night Coppers are posing 😂. In the books

Katie Chappell

and I are writing about Salty Dog and his pals, we decided that their favourite TV show is called Baddies Get Caught.

Salty and his pals getting ready for bed after watching Baddies Get Caught

Yesterday we went to see The Balled of Wallis Island. I happy-cried all the way through. What a beautiful film. Time Key is a genius.

I booked a trip for me and my mum to go and see the Bondville Model Village. You can imagine how excited I am.

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Things I bought this week

New pyjamas that remind me of the ones my parents brought back from Hong Kong for me when I was about eight. My Dad won ‘car salesman of the year’ (or something like that) and the prize was a trip to Hong Kong.

I bought this model Nissen Hut from eBay because my Grandparents squatted in a Nissen hut after the second world war. A Nissen hut is a prefabricated building usually made of corrugated iron, used by the military. My grandparents had a few of their six children there. Imagine! It sounds idyllic to me, but I imagine it was cold in winter.

The pics are from google, not my actual grandparents, they were too poor to own a camera.

I found the perfect bag for my Good Ship patch.

I bought myself some peonies, they are so blousy and beautiful aren’t they?

Peonies and the bag I bought for the Good Ship patch

I bought Aēsops air freshener. It’s too good for just spraying round the kitchen. I spray it into the air then walk through the mist so I smell extra nice.

A Gifford’s Circus mug. Of course.

I went to Newcastle’s Grainger Street Market looking for a naked lady lighter for my daughter’s birthday (that was top of her list 🤷‍♀️) but the tobacconists only had vapes so I left empty handed — but with good photos.

Grainger Street Market is the business: all rain hoods, enormous knickers, old lady nighties, under slips, frilly baby clothes, pies, chips, bags of meat 🥩.

I must come back here to draw.

Grainger Street Market

How’s your weekend going? What’s for dinner? I am hoping we’ll have a good Sunday Buffet of ‘picky bits’.

Love Helenx