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Apothecary cabinet strangeness in Surrey

You will of course remember this cabinet that I bigged up recently, it was listed for �100 and I put in a few bids for it, as I liked it and it's full price would be over two grand and it matches what we've got. It sold in the end for �545 to someone...

Nice weekend, quiet weekend

Nice weekend. Changed our Friday night outgoing plans and had a quiet one in. Saturday went to a 92nd birthday tea for Clare's gran over in Tenterden, home for a brief siesta, and then out to The Guildhall with visiting family and friends. Took a bri...
Rated 3.57/10 on Folkestone Gerald

If we could get this for �100 that would be FINE...

Bergerac Oak sideboard / display cabinet....

Simple Simon's: GONE!

Simple Simon's has reopened as "The Parrot". Still very similar, less independent beers on the bar and more Youngs, as that's who owns it now. Had a brace of pints there yesterday afternoon and it was very nice. They now sell bottles of beer at the b...
Rated 6.01/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Why's this Habitat Radius furniture always so far away?

Five drawer tallboy, starting at fifty quid, but it's in Cheshire. Will most likely end up waiting until we move and then buying another one of these new. It's going to be well handy having tall and slim furniture when we move from the big wide flat ...

I bought a thing

This is what I bought at the boot fair yesterday, but was too traumatised to write about because of squished finger:It's a valet like this one, but a bit nicer I think. It looks older than it is and I've no idea what wood it's made out of, it's been ...

Tsk

It's the John Lewis furniture that is rustic, the Habitat furniture is all web2.0 style clean lines and curvy corners...Clare got a "place", winnings were less than the cost of putting the various bets on, but we'll get our 25 quid back I hope. Have ...

RE: "Fundamentalist" for the Grand National

I took up the free �25 bet - not through PB - and managed to pick the winner, and net �100. It wasn't through any skill, I just picked one with a cool name that was touted as having a good chance. It's a shame you didn't win, how else are you going t...

"Not Heals"

A pair of carvers, Habitat Radius oak furniture. Cheeky description there "Not Heals", I've not thought to look for Heals oak furniture on ebay. �99 for two, would be �320 new, not in as new condition but collect from Brighton, that's doable. If I ha...

We nearly bought one of these

and perhaps should have done, half price Bergerac Oak TV stand. If you can collect from Glossop. Not worth organising a courier for really.Been a while since I posted any furniture bargains. Will be a while again before we buy anything I suspect. All...

Battle of the console tables

Back to one of my favourite subjects, our furniture on ebay, two console tables up for grabs, one here in North London and one here in Bristol, same tables, same end date, neck and neck so far, who will win? I'm watching both of these and will report...

Weather report part two

Ferocious rain woke us both up in the night, a proper downpour again. Clare got the fear that the weather might have resulted in our pilot light going out (it happened before), which would mean waking up to cold showers, so I got up to check on it. W...

The Ringlestone is brilliant.

My new favourite pub. My husband and I have been all over the UK staying at inns and seeking out old worldy country pubs, this one was the best hands down. (I'm American and he's from London so it's been kind of game to find the best.) The pub itself...

Rated 5.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Four tables, four prices

Hmm I suspect these four dining tables are actually the same table, but you can pay between 900 and 1250 pounds for them, depending on whether you want the table with just four chairs, four chairs and a bench, five chairs and a bench, or two chairs, ...

You wait ages for a John Lewis Bergerac table

And then two come along at once. This one looks like a genuine sale, be lovely to think it stayed near it's opening price of fifty quid and didn't sail up to the thousand pound mark, but unlikely. As a bonus there you get to have a nose around that p...

Crikey spikey

Best off for the console table was �150 in the end, I think someone paid too much for that. It comes down to where you live though, I could pay fifty pounds more for a piece of furniture I wanted that was in Kent than I would if it was not, just to s...

Now that's more like it for a dressing table

Hmm what a gay subject line, but after yesterday's console table for �175, here's a console table AND bench, currently at �100, get in... we have both of these, they're nice, I was wondering about getting another one and adapting it as a slimline low...

Buy it now, �175?

We got our one of these for about �110 in the end... I guess that one will go to offers, not bought anything like that before.Is the time right to sell my pushbike? I want rid of it, I've never used it, do you want an as new Raleigh Chopper and can y...

I am outbid

I figured out how to get the furniture I am after couriered down from Preston with the help of a really cool website (that I have temporarily forgotten the name of) where you advertise what you want doing and all sorts of couriers and hauliers and ma...

Bidding's going crazy on the Bergerac Oak sideboard

9 bids so far, up to over 650 quid, looks like being not such a bargain for me when you take into account getting it couriered down from Preston. Still no bids on the bookcase but I expect that'll pick up today or tomorrow too. Interestingly (well, r...

Stuff I want!

This bookcase and this sideboard, good starting prices on ebay, sure to go up to about 3/4 of their shop price though anyway, and how do I get them from Preston? Do I organise a courier? What's that cost? Collecting them myself would be too dangerous...

John Lewis Bergerac Oak TV Stand

This is what we should have got when we bought our sideboard, maybe. I am in a quandary still, I don't like the open shelves, but I do need access for DVD players and things.. This one is too high a starting price anyway, it's being sold by a busines...

Habitat radius wardrobe doors back on sale

99p starting bid, pick up from Wimbledon, only one set this time though, what price did they go for last time? 62 pounds for two pairs looks like....

Cool bag

This bag is a strictly limited edtion from a local shop in Folkestone, it's made from leftover (unused) London tube train seat material:Retro and recycled and local and cool, all in one, nice. Via keetsa.com, some sort of enviro-blog I think.While I'...

Two tall boys

I think St Albans is too far away for me to collect, but someone's selling not one but TWO of the chests of drawers I want...Just a quick micro post / bookmark thing to freshen up the blog (and so I don't forget this stuff) and before I get round to ...

Yeah local celebrities

I've just remembered Paul O'Grady was in the shop when I bought my new bit of furniture, he lives locally I think. ...

Delivery excitement

The wife just reminded me that we have our new furniture arriving today, that's exciting! I say furniture, it's our sideboard for the TV to go on.Got a good weekend planned too, back to Blakes, and watching the rugby in Dover before that.More TV rela...

Magic darts

Turned on the final of the Lakeside World Championship last night while we were having tea (Sunday, so chilli), and nearly turned it right off again as it looked like a bit of an embarrassing white washing, Martin Adams bein six sets to nill up again...

Monday morning roundup

I'd heard of this before, but didn't know the reason why some councils are refusing to recycle shredded paper, that's pretty poor.Commercial director John Collis said: "The small pieces of paper tend to get trapped in the conveyor belts and cause a f...

RE: Number one result for "Habitat Radius"

I like your taste in furniture, said the man who recently took delivery of a Bergerac dining table.The furniture is fantastic, the jobsworth JL delivery geezers not so. They refused to bring it inside my house claiming it wouldn't fit, leaving me to ...