a visit to the charity shop
when the wife and I when shopping the other day we popped into one of the charity shops and after a look around I found a gardening book by my garden hero Geoff Hamilton
the book called Geoff Hamilton’s Cottage Garden that accompanied his television series was a real find and well worth the £1.50 I paid for it I also bought another book called country Harvest by Linda Burgess and Rosamond Richardson cost me £1.25 both books well worthy of a good read in these coming winter nights
we always have a good look round charity shops when we are out shopping as there are some genuine bargains to be had together with supporting very good charities that most are run by voluntary staff that give there free time to help the less fortunate than us I think we all appreciate what they do for these charities “don’t we
Hear here Roly…and congratulations on that super find
I love secondhand books and the more stuff we recycle, the better
I also love visiting charity shops and have found some great books. My hero too Roly and I was lucky enough to meet him a couple of times and have one of my books signed by him as we live an hour away from Barnsdale and have watched it grow and change over the years.
That’s interesting Cilla :yes: When we were looking for a place in Lincs, one of ones we visited had a Geoff Hamilton designed garden
Loved the place but there was the weakest internet connection possible and OH couldn’t stand up in the bedroom 
Oh what a shame Jane. But you love your present garden don’t you.
We have several charity shops in our village Roly; it’s like a lucky dip inside them all. The best finds are gardening bits and bobs for me, especially tools, they have a history locked away inside them and I always wonder who used them and where.
we to live about an hour from Barnsdale Cilla I wish I had the opportunity to meet Geoff in the flesh so to speak
we visited Barnsdale once but we keep saying we would love to go back hopefully next year god willing
and how rite you are Hayley many good gardening finds at the charity shops if they could speak would they tell a good tale
:yes: