Locked sheds in walled gardens
May. 24th, 2021 09:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lovingbothLooking for a bike on evilFB's marketplace, I discovered by accident that a local village was having a fundraising event the next day: at least 45 homes would be having 'yard sales'.
They've each paid the organisers, the friends of the local primary school, a fiver. That's got them on a map of the village with the various homes marked on it.
Great, that's worth going to!
"For information, an up-to-date version of this map and to see what people have at their yard sales please search '[village name] yard sale'".
Google knows nothing about it. It will show me property sites with sales of places with yards there, but even having the quotes doesn't help.
Doing the search on evilFB comes up with nothing either. The organisers are in a closed group, so I can't see posts there.
I eventually work out a search that does find a post that talks about the 'FB event page', but I don't find the actual event page until after we've been to it.
It takes some skill to have an event that Google knows nothing about, but it's not necessarily a skill that's useful to organisers of events like this...
We came back very happy and there were plenty of people walking around clutching purchases, but not many people came from outside the village, I think (or if they did, they didn't park where they were told to!)
They've each paid the organisers, the friends of the local primary school, a fiver. That's got them on a map of the village with the various homes marked on it.
Great, that's worth going to!
"For information, an up-to-date version of this map and to see what people have at their yard sales please search '[village name] yard sale'".
Google knows nothing about it. It will show me property sites with sales of places with yards there, but even having the quotes doesn't help.
Doing the search on evilFB comes up with nothing either. The organisers are in a closed group, so I can't see posts there.
I eventually work out a search that does find a post that talks about the 'FB event page', but I don't find the actual event page until after we've been to it.
It takes some skill to have an event that Google knows nothing about, but it's not necessarily a skill that's useful to organisers of events like this...
We came back very happy and there were plenty of people walking around clutching purchases, but not many people came from outside the village, I think (or if they did, they didn't park where they were told to!)