Our enterprising sub-editor packed the large white van (the one that got her husband stopped on the way to Heathrow) with all sorts of paraphernalia and took her two grandchildren off to help her with a boot sale. Because of the propensity of teenagers to want to stay in bed on weekend mornings, she decided to camp about ten minutes from the annual RNLI bootsale in Henley-on-Thames to allow them the maximum lie-in. Having roused them at 6am, they were washed, dressed, tent packed and ensconced in the van by 6.30am only to find that they couldn’t exit the campsite - a small sign, hidden by a parked van (outside the barrier!) told of the height barrier which had been erected after their arrival the previous day and which would not be opened until 9am on Sundays! As the boot sale began at 7am that was just a tad late. A frantic phone message left on the camp's answering machine saved the day and she managed to arrive just in the nick of time. Her flat is now somewhat clearer but more boot sales may follow.

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