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A soaked August bank holiday taught us the difference between a washout and a wasted day. This is the kit that lives in the car now, the twenty-minute rule we use, and the free places that genuinely don't mind a bit of drizzle.
We didn't mean to do a whole year of car boot sales. It started with a soggy Sunday in March and ended with frost on the trestle tables in December. Here's what we learned about cash, tote bags, car park etiquette and the strange, lasting pull of a three-pound treasure.
Some Saturdays deserve a grand plan. Most, we have learned, just need a left turn instead of a right. This is our case for the one-street-over rule: the tiny, repeatable adventure that starts almost exactly where you already are.
Every town has a high street you can read in five minutes and a village hall noticeboard that takes an hour. Ours started as shelter from the rain and turned into the most honest character reference a place can give you. Here is what we look for now, and why we build it into every day out.
Everyone's got an opinion on what to do with a Sunday. Ours involves a flask, a B road and absolutely no destination — and we're convinced it's the cheapest, best day out left in Britain.