20. Just came back in from outside
… and same prob as yesterday … Unknown trying to post (pls see sidebar about name). First few words were:
“The Ottoman question is identical …”
Wotchoofink of ottomans then? Ian’s idea is good:
19. Seriously considering using one of these
… as an actual foot-of-the-bed ottoman storage chest:
Wotchoofink of ottomans then? Ian’s idea is good:
Better than a pouf, which is prone to misunderstanding. Ggl explains: “Can you sit on poufs? Yes, you can sit on poufs. In fact, poufs can be a great way to add flexible seating to your space. Just be sure to snag a pouf that's big enough and soft enough to comfortably sit on.”
My understanding is that the word derived from the fashionable French hairstyle the pouffant but the use had largely died out by the turn of the century as it increasingly became frowned upon as cruel and unusual punishment, except in English public schools to this very day.
18. IYE on Chas and the Donald
https://nourishingobscurity.wordpress.com/2023/03/23/reader-drops-275-2/#comments
17. Steve
Among other good articles over at TCW this morning:
TCW is essential reading these days:
Vaccine damage is now indisputable, say top scientists - Neville Hodgkinson
https://www.conservativewoman.
Among other good articles over at TCW this morning:
TCW is essential reading these days:
Vaccine damage is now indisputable, say top scientists - Neville Hodgkinson
https://www.conservativewoman.
16. Football pattern becoming more common
Beeb:
Huddersfield have been taken over by a North American group after chairman Dean Hoyle acquired 100% of the club's shares and subsequently sold them.
Hoyle initially took over in 2009 before selling the club to Phil Hodgkinson, after 11 years at the club.
He returned in 2021 to provide funding due to Hodgkinson's financial difficulties but stepped down as chief executive for health reasons in 2022.
"We would like to thank fans for their patience and support," the club said.
In a statement, Huddersfield added that the unnamed group's takeover was subject to "legislative and governance procedures", and that more information would be provided after completion.
re 19: An old seamans/soldiers chest would have more scope for humour - and be a good place for keeping tools!
ReplyDelete19. Laughing here :) Just been rearranging some furniture this morning. Three guesses what two of the items were?
ReplyDeleteNow residing at the bottom of our bed is a very nice chest similar to the one top right only with two drawers at the bottom and nice brass fittings and drawer pulls. Darker in colour - think the wood is cherry. Downstairs now resides a bigger one with an upholstered top to be used as a window seat. Dark stained pine I think it is also with brass fittings - brackets to reinforce the corners which came from a boat building emporium type business online. Very useful for storing winter duvets and no doubt stuff.
Steve
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We have one stored in the loft, my grandmother's (Dad's side) - it's that famous basket furniture make whose name escapes me. They made those half round chairs as well. It's pre-war, immaculate, as all her things were and being a proper Devonshire maid she knitted and sewed everything that went in it: blankets and counterpanes, etc. Born Thurza Elizabeth in 1899 my Nan was an amazing lady with many skills and by God you needed them in rural Devon. Would you believe the house she was born in was wattle and daub, with a straw roof! There's poverty for you. She passed age 94 still missing her two older brothers, both of whom were killed in the Great War.
Lloyd Loom - basket furniture name you couldn't remember. Used to have a LL chair in the kitchen in front of the stove in my childhood home.
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DeleteThat's the one, Nan's are wine coloured, with a floral pattern on the seat.
19. Ottomen, not a fan because in this house any flat surface that's handy to put things down on mysteriously collects 'stuff'. Then it's in the way when you need to open it.
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