Antiques roadshow

At Holker Hall today, no sign of Fiona Bruce

An interesting day out which involved a lot of queuing and some interesting objects. I had my dad's scales for weighing sovereigns valued and dated, about 1780 but Adam Schoon seemed a bit disappointed that I knew what they were and why they needed to weigh sovereigns.
Jim took an ebony and bone (we thought may be Ivory) walking stick that has an elephants head for the handle. His great grandfather brought it back in after a mining trip, we thought to Africa but Adam said the stick was more likely Indian. He son, Jim's grandad called Squire, walked along the beach as a young boy at Robin Hood's bay to meet his father as he returned from the trip around the turn of the century. Interesting, but neither item will facilitate early retirement!

People were lugging tables, chairs, teddy bears and huge paintings about across the grass which made me laugh and I think the main items when this is aired, will be a series of costumes that they were just filming when we arrived and this guy's collection of helmets. I didn't quite catch how much they were worth but it made him smile...a lot

I said to the woman in the queue in front of me as the filming was at my side "oh don't let the cameras catch me, I've thrown a sickie at work". She believed me. I did eventually put her right and tell her I was only joking!