Today we hired a transit van and drove 40 miles south to Wareham near Poole Harbour to pick up a large pine table and four chairs for our kitchen. Yesterday we had made a successful bid for the table and chairs at one of the regular auctions held by Cottees, auctioneers in Wareham since 1903. Getting the table into our kitchen was quite a struggle as none of the kitchen's three entrances is wider than 29 inches and the table's smallest dimension (its legs) is 31 inches. Eventually we managed it by a sort of sideways limbo dance, two legs first, then the table moving slowly through an arc with the last two legs following. Our table is of course second hand but even without wax polishing it looks pretty good - see photo.
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