https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/08/26/spitalfields-antiques-market-20/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:45:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/08/26/spitalfields-antiques-market-20/#comment-851 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:45:52 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=11114#comment-851 My daughter who has a stall (ephemera) at the market told me about your blog. I am currently in France and have just picked my blackberry crop. Sloes have been located but it’s still too early to pick them and rose hips, better after the frosts. Have recently picked all the greengages on my tree and am currently picking buckets of lovely smallish purple plums – the ones with the whitish purple bloom on them.Am freezing a lot of these on trays before bagging up, the rest I boil with a little brown sugar and eat every day with plain organic yoghurt. The blackberries greengages, and purple plums in the freezer will last the whole year. I have apples to come, I pick these from the ancient trees in the field hedges then put them on trays eating them throughout the winter. They are much sweeter when they get a bit wrinkled! There will still be walnuts and the chestnuts to come! I live in France, the Limousin, all summer, then in Northumberland all winter.I was born within the sound of Bow Bells. Was at the Spitalfields’ Market last Autumn where I visited my daughter’s stand and bought some lovely antique curtains. I am a long time dealer in decorative antiques, and an artist.

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