Here in France they have street markets, or brocantes, in villages, towns and cities. Some of the larger ones have thousands of sellers and visitors, but village brocantes can be much smaller, sometimes disappointingly so. Even professional brocantes where the sellers should be professional, you get amateurs who often sell children’s clothes and toys, but …
I adore French linens and have bought, kept and sold them for nearly 2 decades. This basically is how my business started – far too many to keep and give as presents, so to fund my addiction a business was born. Besides the beautiful monograms found on sheets and tableware, I even love the simple …
After a long drive we arrived at Shepton Mallet in thick fog. The weather forecast had said that there would be sunshine for the whole weekend so we had dressed accordingly, having left home in France when it was 20 degrees! (Note to self: Remember that the weather forecasters are nearly always wrong when there …