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Nov14
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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 man-with-vans bid for the work. After all that the bookcase has another bidder interested who's prepared to pay more than me, so they can have it. It'll be a half price bargain for them, but I don't really need this enough to be trying to outbid them.
Good to know this furniture keeps some of its value, in case I'm strapped, we've got a few bits already.
Work is a bit hectic at the moment, too much to do, not enough people to do it really.
UPDATE: Remembered now I'm back at work, it was www.freightalerts.co.uk
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Jan15
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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 against Phil Nixon. What a game though, glad we stayed watching. Good that Adams won after so long missing out ont he top title, but an amazing comeback to six all by Nixon. Now he's a contender, he'll have to get himself a better nickname than just "Nixy"...
The darts, and the following Three Musketeers that we also watched topped off a fairly fullsome weekend. Friday I was working again, and followed that with a rare night out in Gordon's with my Ushers, much heated debate did pass. I was not so diverted as to miss my train home though, made the nine, which was good as we had an early morning planned for the next day.
For christmas, we mostly asked for vouchers so we could buy some more furniture from John Lewis. We've needed a TV stand for a while, been making do with an old kitchen cupboard since we moved in, which is nearly three years now. We considered mounting the TV on the wall for ages, but it seems a bit too much disruption, so we thought we'd get the TV table to match our other furniture. Instead of heading to our nearest John Lewis at Bluewater, it's just as quick to go into London, so we did that and made a day of it.
Despite having settled on the TV cabinet about a year ago, within a few minutes of being in the shop we'd completely changed our minds, decided to spend twice as much money and buy this:
Seeing it on it's own, in stark contrast to the sleek lines of this web page (*ahem*), it's a bit farmhouse kitchen really, but in the flesh it looks good, and feels nice, and the storage will be handier, and the telly will go nicely on top of it. It will be a shame to have to brutally cut a whole in the back so as to stuff it with DVD players and the like, but HEY, it will nice nice to have everything tidied away... Eight to ten weeks for delivery unfortunately, but then I'll be BACK with real pictures, changing history, and denying we ever lived like this.
As well as the shopping, we headed back up to Stokey, to have lunch at our old favourite Il Bacio with Emma, and we also popped in our old local The Defoe and round to Emma's smashing new flat in a converted church.
It made a nice change to go into London at the weekend, and not have to race around going to work etc, we might do it again soon.
Saturday night we went down to the Harbour (the part of Folkestone) and went in The Harbour (the pub) and The Ship, both had really good live music on.
Rest of Sunday; shopping, visiting, housework, watching telly, and you're back at the start of this post.
Malice Box Quest is also actually live today, you can answer questions and start building up points towards the prize winning end game...
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Nov12
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Was just trying to find the furniture we bought at the weekend, and all the top results are me, how strange. It's down to Habitat's website being quite bad, the whole flash interface makes it hard to index, so my pages are coming up top. ANYWAY, here's that dressing table we got off ebay:
Doesn't really look much there, but we're really pleased with it. We got about a third off buying it second hand, this stuff seems to keep it's value. Annoying now, but handy if we need to sell any of it. Next purchase, more \"Bergerac\" range oak furniture from John Lewis, not likely to see much of that come up cheap though unfortunately. Wish I could be a reseller for it, I'm top google result there too.
Spent the day in Tunbridge Wells, and had my second mushroom and truffle pizza in Pizza Express, even nicer this time. Tunbridge Wells was great, lots of individual shops, looking forward to going back there again. We found some more oak called Antix which kind of matches the John Lewis stuff, it's French again, maybe we should go direct to France and look for some furniture...
It's not all been about obsessive hoarding of furnishings this weekend though, we spent the evening crawling round the pubs of Folkestone, starting off with an overdue return to an old friend Chambers. Wouldn't you know it, it was house night again, so we left after a quick comple of pints. They must save their indie nights for the week, when it would be quieter, but it is annoying. Next stop was going to be The British Lion, but we got sidetracked by The Electric Beatles at Mustang's. Ropey sound quality, but good effort in terms of costume and that. After that on to The Ship Inn in the harbour, and a truly terrible singing keyboardist, then to The Mariner and a quite good Irish band, then last orders in The Guildhall and I can't remember what kind of music the duo there were playing for some reason.
Quiet day today.
Sorry if the site is flickering a bit, it's some JQuery javascript I'm trying out, going to do some more fancy dynamics on here soon.
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