Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Name My Hippo!!

Car boot sales are the BEST events EVER!! They're basically yard sales, but instead of the customer going through the effort of locating and then driving around to all the different sales, the sellers bring their stuff to a big empty field, and the customers all pay about $1.50 to get in, and then everyone's all together to buy and sell! I went with Cerys, and Mary, who's the House Mistress of one of the two female boarding houses.

Cerys buying a measuring pole for geography activites.

 Mary, "pole dancing"

 I bought a few books, and Mary got me a real nice accordion portfolio (I tried to haggle down the price and the lady wasn't going for it, so when I was going to walk away, Mary just went ahead and bought it for me), and a bracelet with a retro sterling heart-shaped padlock; the maker's mark indicates that it was made in 1980, in Birmingham, but I haven't been able to identify the actual marker.

[I have no clue why the photo is sideways; I've tried reloading it but it still shows up the same.]


But the best thing I got is this:
It's a large plastic hippo! I bought it because it made me laugh. That's the only reason :) . So what should I name it? Leave your suggestion in the comment box, but nothing already famously attached to a hippo---it deserves an original name.

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