[HPFGU-OTChatter] More Britishisms?

[Kathryn Cawte]

> Kathryn mentioned something that caught my eye:
> >
> > ...I'll continue looking out for the books in charity shops... and
> >at car boots, which I should never go to because ... you end up with
> >boxes full of stuff you don't need but looked cool :)
>
> Car boot...is this the equivalent of what Rita SKeeter referred to as
> a "bring and fly sale?" What Yanks call a swap meet?
>
> Grannybat
> just full of questions lately
>

Uh, possibly? The problem is that I understand your terminology about as
well as you get mine, making it difficult to decide if you're on the right
track.

Car Boot Sale - Event where people turn up to sell stuff (you get
professional dealers at them nowadays as well as 'amateurs') originally out
of the boot (trunk) of a car but generally on tables now (although usually
with the car right parked right behind for restocking the table, keeping
your hot drinks in etc - since they almost always start at a ridiculous hour
in the morning and it's cold a lot of the time). They range from school
events with maybe a dozen participants and mainly parents and such as the
'customers' to regular weekly events covering vast areas of space, full of
crowds of people and the knowledge that amongst those bargains you might
just pick up a faberge jewel for 50p ;) (hey just watch the Antiques
Roadshow to see how often that actually seems to happen - but never to me
unfortunately). Antiques fairs are cool too but too many professional
dealers and less bargains.

K