One man’s trash is another man’s treasure so the saying goes and if you read this column regularly you’ll know that rather than revelling in how expensive something I’ve bought is I’m more likely to be found boasting about how little I’ve had to pay for them.

So as you can imagine I was in my element when I paid a trip to a jumble sale held at the INTRA arts centre situated on the high street between Chatham and Rochester on Sunday 4^th June.

I got there soon after opening and it was already full of people having a good old rummage so I sharpened my elbows and got stuck in to see if I could unearth some treasures for myself too.

I made the rookie mistake once of putting down an item I liked only for someone else to waltz off with it and inevitably found myself coveting the items of other people standing waiting to pay in the queue but still managed to buy myself a plethora of new to me goodies for just over a fiver so I’m looking forward to the next one, I’m not sure my fit to bursting wardrobe is quite so much though!