Friday 25 February 2011

One man's junk is another man's treasure......

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk....... Thomas Edison

Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary..... William S. Burrows

Just a couple of quotations here to sum up why I love to go to brocantes and vide greniers when we are in France. I love them, but Tim doesn't get them at all!

Anyway, a couple of weeks ago both Jean, in her blog A Very Grand Pressigny, and Antoinette in Chez Charnizay, were discussing brocantes. Antoinette mentioned a booklet giving a calendar of events in our region. It is really useful, so I bought one on Antoinette's recommendation. I also managed to pick up a copy for Jean on our recent visit, so here is a sneak preview.



So......thank you Antoinette and Jean. We went to a really good one last year at Chaumussay. In 2011 this event will take place again on August 28th.

Maybe I'll see you there?

P.S. I think William S Burrows was probably referring to a different kind of 'junk' .

3 comments:

  1. Glad to see you got a copy. Charnizay is holding a brocante on the 12th March. Niall and I intend to give it a go and reserve a stall (they're free I believe) and see what it is like 'on the other side of the fence'.

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  2. If we were lucky enough to be in France, we'd be there!

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  3. You could always make do with Newark in the meantime. I know it's just antiques but it's everything from smalls ( as they are called in the trade, with nothing to do with pants at all!) To antiques to fill an ancestrial mansion

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