Sunday 17 June 2012

Lashings of Ginger beer...

...preferably the Crabbies alcoholic variety, is what I intend to pack in my latest purchase. Isn't it a beauty?  Well, it will be; once I've cleaned all the cutlery up, removed the vestiges of green paint on the wicker and got rid of several years of accumulated dust. I think it had been stored in someone's attic for a while before being finally dropped off at the charity shop. I'm guessing it hadn't been in the window that long before I came along and grabbed it! It cost £8.50, and it's massive, so I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have hung around. The plates are china, and it came with an absolute ton of different size tupperware containers - so we'll each be able to have an individual portion of hard-boiled quail eggs or whatever delicacies cook can rustle up for us. Just the ticket after solving a mystery on a windswept moor, or foiling smugglers in a deserted cove. 

I think I shall call him Timothy

Will catch up with everyone soon - and Ta-dah! Tuesday coming up if you have any great makes, finds or outfits to share.

What are your picnic essentials?

Lakota x

Linking up with Flea Market Finds , Magpie Monday and Nifty Thrifty Tuesday

41 comments:

  1. I scored a never used rucksack pic-a-nick set at a car boot- china plates, many chilled compartments for food AND wine etc'. I gave it to my dad for father's day. He got utterly over excited.

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  2. I was just going to suggest Timothy actually. The OBVIOUS name for a perfect picnic hamper. Well found my love. How will you clean the dusty parts though, and will you just soak the tupperware? I just never know what to do in those situations. Let I know.
    Is it you who won Betty Bee's dress???
    I got confused as they called the winner Faith but I was thinking it was you. I hope I am right.....
    xxxxxxx

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    1. Yes! I seem to be called Faith quite a lot (usually be PRs who haven't bothered to read my blog) but I guess it's an easy mistake to make and in this case I don't mind! Maybe people think I have a sister called Hope?

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  3. I also have been lucky enough to find a picnic basket in good condition. Now I know why they have fallen out of favour. Everything falls over when you carry the basket. Nothing stays cold and the food goes off. The ants get in when you place it on the ground. And packing away dirty dishes becomes a torture as I try to fit plastic bags of cutlery and dishes into spaces that do not exist. Armed with this knowledge, you should be able to plan more successfully than I did.

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    1. Haha, right. I consider myself forewarned! It also weighs a ton so I shall have to get my chauffeur and butler to carry it for me. Or failing that, a brace of ruddy cheeked farm boys. Luckily I have various freezer blocks I can shove in, and we take so much food there would be no room for anything to fall over.

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    2. Failing any of this it makes a good occasional table.

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  4. OMG! So many Enid references makes me way too excited! Love this fab find - my picnic essentials are sunscreen, hat, something super sweet - meringues! ice cream!, a lovely old rug, a good book and a hot boy in faded vintage jeans with a guitar in hand... ah, a girl can dream...

    Sarah xxx

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  5. Wow! timothy! i like. I never make it to the picnic, I always get hungry before hand. But if I were a proper lady I'd say watermelon, chicken salad, and coca cola. And maybe McDonalds. oops. Help! My appetite is increasing beyond my control.

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  6. Great find, cant beat a nice wicker hamper. I'm very much a ploghmans kind of picknicker so for me it would be cheese, pickles and bread all the way, followed by chocolate almonds and piping hot tea from a pretty flask-all atop a checked picnic rug x

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  7. Timothy is fab!! What a great find :)

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  8. Oh Timothy is amazing!!!!!! What a fabulous find!!!! Yay to picnics with a gorgeous basket holding all the yummy things.
    Love v

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  9. Great find, and filled so full of cake you won't break a thing. Simply spiffing.

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  10. What fabulous find! Adore picnics but ours wouldn't be complete without a tartan blanket, tea in china teacups and a slice of battenburg!
    Victoria xx

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  11. What an amazing bargain! You will also need ham sandwiches and bakewell tarts for afters x

    Penny Dreadful Vintage

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  12. Mine are typical Famous Five style (or perhaps more Five Go Mad In Dorset - have you seen it?) - hard boiled eggs, ham, salad and lashings of ginger beer. Though when I was little we had a lot of quiche too. I love Timothy, or perhaps Timmy like the Famous Five Dog

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  13. Ah very Enid Blyton ,..love Jan xx

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  14. Lovely basket...super find.

    When we picnic (actually did one yesterday) I use a cooler bag for the grub, and a tote bag stuffed with old Tesco bags for the crockery, to wrap up dirty plates after eating.

    Tres romantic and organic, non?

    Not.

    But easier to deal with, especially when you have to lug them a long way down a hot street from the car, then over a steep, pebbly beach. (Yep, speaking from painful experience.)

    However, if I had a car with a chauffeur and a gaggle of servants, then wicker it would be, all the way. :)

    They do make great storage containers though - I keep fabric in mine.

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  15. Ooh! I'm green with envy. I've always wanted a picnic hamper just like that. Every time we go out as a family, I pack a picnic, of I have romantic visions of replacing the cool-bag with a wicker basket.
    My picnic essentials are a gallon of squash, cold chopped sausages, babybel cheeses, rock cakes (they don't crumble as quickly as cupcakes) and whatever is in the fridge - coleslaw, carrots, yoghurt, fruit. The most important thing is a pack of wet-wipes. Just what age are your kids when you stop needing them?!
    Great find - lucky you.

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  16. I have such a soft spot for picnic sets! LOVE

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  17. Ah, picnic hampers...you can't beat 'em. I wish we had the appropriate June weather at the moment to be able to use them!

    P.S. Hope you and Timothy have many adventures together (whether on Puffin Island or not!) ;-)

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  18. Great find but yeah, not the most practical in terms of lugging it around with you. We picnic a lot (because we're too mean to fork out for pub lunches etc) so our picnics are not massively exciting: sarnies, drink and fruit usually. I do insist on coffee (in one of our many flasks) and chocolate or biscuits or cake. Oh yes! xx

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  19. Gorgeous! My favourite thing about old picnic sets are the little tupperware bits and peices. I am tempted to get mine out just to use but I know the lids will dissapear in about three outings!
    xx

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  20. I loitered near a hamper in a shop in Dorchester last week with a hopeful expression adorning my battered features. But to no avail: Mrs E persuaded me that a hamper, though attractive, was "impractical to carry" and hence other picnic-themed luggage would serve better (ever a practical soul, sigh...) I was disappointed, I confess and now for the first time in my life, I have hamper-envy. How can one have a stylish Edwardian Picnic in the Park, with appropriate millinery and tea cups, sporting a variety of PVC based insulating cool bags? I hoe you find occasion to use your hamper for the finest of summer picnics.

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  21. Oooh! That is RIGHT nice!

    I love our National Trust coolbag rucksack thingy. Which we got for free when we joined. It never lets us down :)

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  22. Fabulous find!!! What a gem for the summer!

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  23. Fabulous find and a right old bargain, too! I can't resist them either, I keep forgetting we live in England and by the time I've made a picnic it's started to rain.
    If it carries on this horrid you'll have to have a carpet picnic in front of the TV. xxx

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  24. You lucky thing! What a brilliant find! I've always wanted a little picnic basket, nothing as large as yours but just big enough for two people. I bet you'll get a lot of use out of that once you've cleaned him up! xxx

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  25. What a great treasure! The plates are so pretty! Good luck solving that mystery! :)

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  26. That's lovely, and such a bargain! I wish we'd waited to get a traditional hamper instead of our modern set!

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  27. Oh! Timothy is absolutely ripping! I have a thing about picnic hampers too, and have more than you can shake a stick at, but all for different occasions! I am very envious though of your handsome specimen.

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  28. Hi my dear!! wow that was a bargainous find, a really great must have item for the summer! thanks for the lovely comment, unfortunately my son is 'too busy' to be taking my outfit shots anymore, he'd rather do other people, haha! have a great week ahead xxx

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  29. Love your hamper,especially the china inside,i just found a lovely one in a local charity shop which was lined,unfortunately the crockery was all plastic but i am now searching for some china,It was only £6.50 though so was really pleased!!! Love your Blog,love seeing what treasures other people uncover around the country!

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  30. What an awesome find! Loving the Enid Blyton-esque slant to this post, now I'm craving Ginger Beer...

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  31. Oh what a wizard find Lakota! Jolly good show! Must show it to Aunt Fanny and Uncle Quentin! My boyfriend found one just like this at a Village fayre last year, he loves it! Though make sure you stop at the dairy for a couple of ices and macaroons after your cycle!

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  32. MY picnic essentials are somebody else makes the picnic and also cleans it up. Your basket is great, though.

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  33. I suppose it helps if the jeans have a bit of 'give'. Years ago I experimented with cut offs for myself and actually cut them a bit longer and turned the hems up, I don't know if playing with the length would help.
    ♥ nic

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  34. What a find. I love going on picnics in the summer but have yet to get an amazing picnic hamper. I would definitely fill it up with smoked salmon, champagne and strawberries.

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  35. A lucky find - no wonder you grabbed it! I just came upon a picture (we’re scanning old slides) of me as a young Mum with a similar picnic hamper. I even remember what I used to put in it. Before we drove down to Devon or Cornwall, or wherever, for our self catering hols I would bake a banana loaf. It stayed moist wrpped in foil and both the children loved it.

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  36. Fab picnic basket, it was clearly destined to be yours! I'm sure he'll make a great companion xxx

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  37. Oh now you're making me hanker for an old picnic hamper I saw but left behind in the charity shop many moons ago.

    God knows why i didn't buy it at the time (had probably brought home one too many bird plates at teh time).

    Anyway, here's to Timothy and ginger beer is definitely my tipple of choice (ripper, topping etc).

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