I just cannot resist.......try as I might....

Yes ther is always a first time Austin,and lovely to see you again!!just get your head bobbing over the top of those skips!!

A bar of chocolate is a lure to me,and a skip is a lure to me,there is something that just takes over and my head is over the top before I know it!!Im swivelling my head around to get all of the angles in..things hide in the corners you know!!and I love to get the full picture!!But why not??im not doing anyone any harm,its an innocent pastime,and if it brings me something that I consider to be udseful then all well and good!

If I had a chance to spend a day at the local skips it would be much like taking me to Harrods for the day..only much much better...the joy of looking over the top,scaling those dizzy heights to see what lays in that beautiful big orange bucket...well they are usually orange!....obviously Piky you have no sense of imagination,where you see a tatty old box,I see a project,covered in decoupage,laquered and sitting on my side table...I dont have a boiler suit or a balaclava,I just have an innocont little face and a relaxed whistle,,,,as I stroll by I leap over to collect my goodies,then stroll up the street nonchalontly whistling....

I'm trying to declutter Ruby. I don't want my own rubbish let alone any one else's! If you want to pop round later in the week you can have a all sorts of stuff. You may want to rent a separate carriage for the return journey!!

Ive plenty of my own rubbish here Fishy,but if I go in with Ruby as her accomplice,then we may come and collect some of your unwanted clutter.Are there any pop bottles amongst yours??there is money to be made on them you know.
Regards Ella Steptoe

What are you going to call yourselves - Rubella!! I've got some old beer bottles Ella. But you'll have to help me empty them first!!

I am sure that CORONA bottles pay better Fishy,threepence back on each bottle,not to sure of the refund on beer bottles though.Rubella,a bit of a measley german type joke hidden there.But im on the ball tonite,my finger is on the pulse,im quick off the mark.Theres no pulling the wool over Ellas eyes.:D

Corona? I think that was what my Granny had after her cataracts had grown over her eyes. If she's got one of those she won't need wool pulling over her eyes. Still, she could always start a knitting circle with all that spare wool. Yes, I was thinking German measles. wear that balaclava we don't want you being SPOTTED now do we? LOL!!!

Pike my dear lol your sense of humour is a close second to your natural beauty!the spots are subsiding somewhat,but hislittle face resembles a teenager with acne!today he has machinated a ham sandwich..three pounds fifty pence would you believe from Longleat,and he has also sucked relentlessly on a twister lolly,and needs to say he wailed when it was finished.There sadly were no skips at Longleat..a great dissapointment..they are filming there at the moment it seems..something called The four seasons..for a channel that is somewhere on Shy I seem to think my daughter said...but we didnt see any action..last time we were there they were filming a peroid drama,and it was great!..and on top of seeing all of the actors in costume we got free ice lollies handed out to us!!...im stopping now as there are some sharp little teeth heading my way,and they belong to something thats eleven months old!!

I hope those teeth didn't do too much damage Ruby. Thank you for the BR.

You are welcome my little sardine,you deserve it

I have just offered my services to Ruby,to be her mate and go skipping with her,im another fan of other peoples junk.Its not so much the junk its the excitement of climbing to the tip of that big yellow receptacle,peering over the edge,and eyeing it all up.If you want to come we can do a three way split with the profits.

LOL maybe I will my friends, maybe I will! I will knit us some matching balaclavas and we can become a trio of skippers!

You been watching the trawlermen again Rose,a trio of `skippers`...well if we didnt wash for a week we could be a trio of kippers!

These bargain shops are so hard to resist,if I see one it beckons to me with its little finger.Come hither it says and investigate me.Its not very often that you find a good one nowadays,if you do its a bonus.There used to be a good few of them about but that was before all the idea of vintage clothing came in,and that seemed to have finished them off good and proper.

A couch would be a little difficult to put under your arm,or into your pocket,I think that you need to aim a little smaller Che,try to look into the skips and see if you see any buried treasure!If you needed I could give you a crash course on skip investigation,it would take about three weeks,and cost thirty pounds!!lol...but the next time you pass one crane your neck right over the edge,and take a good peer in!

LOL!...That's a great tip there..LOL! Thanks for ruby!

Wonders if Che has passed any likely looking skips yet?

You keep on going!!one day we may see you on the television,with the find of the century!it will be worth thousands of pounds...and it came from that skip..

A brilliant idea,and of the same ilk as our car boot sales I would think.the very last car boot sale that I went o was absolutely jam packed!!and I went up and down two rows,then I ran out of steam!!there were so many unwanted toys there,going so cheaply it was hardly beleivable.You could have given a young child all his/her christmas presents and they would have remained totally in the dark about it!But on reflection it was sad to see the amount of toys that had just been cast aside,but this is probably because there isnt anyone elst to hand them on to in the family.

One mans trash is another mans treasure,and there has never been a truer word spoken.It stotally up to the individual as to how they lead their lives and deal with their posessions is a thing that can onl be decided by them,but we now live in such a throwaway society.