You’ve got to love a good flea market. I admit I’m somewhat of a hoarder – since I was little I’ve had the inherent desire to collect things; first it was thimbles, Spice Girls photographs, and cinema tickets from the £1 cinema club on a Saturday, but this slowly evolved into an obsession with hoarding anything remotely shiny and cute, or more recently, just old and plain ugly. I LOVE ugly old stuff.

Luckily in Bristol we are spoilt for places stuffed to the brim with old treasures, ugly or otherwise, so on Sunday me and the boy took our for a trip to Ashton Gate for their ever excellent flea market. We’d been a couple of years ago to get some furniture for our new house and ended up staying for a good few hours just mooching about.

There’s loads to choose from – as well as the vintage businesses with their curated collections there’s also traders with a more pic n mix variety of retro treasures, as well as those with handmade bits and pieces, including a guy who’d crafted copper pipe into bespoke iPad stands. They’ve moved the stalls to a different bit of the stadium (while they’re knocking the old bit down) so it’s a bit of a higgeldy-piggeldy layout across a few rooms, but there’s still a good selection.

I was VERY restrained. If I had all the money in the world I would have bought it all and stuffed my house with 1970s mustard coloured treasures and baby nuns. I enquired after that badger too – but sadly couldn’t afford the £150 price tag. Wahhh.
In the end I got a porcelain labrador figurine for £1 and a massive pink wool blanket for a tidy £8. He’s sitting on my mantelpiece and the blanket I plan to cover the sofa with. Pics soon!

You can catch the flea market at the Bristol City ground on the first Sunday of the month, or at St Nicks on the second. The next one at Ashton Gate is on Sunday 8th March, you can find more info here.