This is my Grandma and Grandad’s dining room table, lovingly restored by Mr C
I also wear my Grandma’s engagement ring every day ....not sure if that counts as “using” but it makes me smile ......and I know she will be smiling too 😁
I rescued my lovely Dads garden kneeler,not that ancient,one that you can turn upside down and sit on. I can still see him in my minds eye sitting on it with a big mug of tea,or a beer when it was hot! I will keep it forever.
The whole truth is an instrument that can only be played by an expert.
My mum's light weight garden spade just right for 5 foot something gardeners. Devastating when the shaft broke and nowhere seemed to offer handle replacement. Eventually the carpentry group at Brunswick Organic Nursery in York fixed it for me for a tenner. So happy to have beloved spade back again x
I know it a sin to covet but those Singer sewing machines are a thing of beauty and are worth a fortune so dont tell anyone where you live !! Sometimes I see the bases used as a table and then the machine in another shop window My radio I bought recently to listen to TMS lasted ....wait for it....25 months just a month after the guarantee. When i was 25 I inherited my Grannies large bakelite radio which must have been 30 years old and it was sounding great
Everyone is just trying to be Happy.....So lets help Them.
We have a rosewood military chest. Must be 19th C and it has an Army and Navy ivory label inset in one of the drawers.
OH's aunty was in service in Reading and when the major died his wife said she could have it as a keepsake. Whenever OH visited as a boy he was the only one of the 3 kids fascinated by it so she left it to him. I love it.
Used to have a really old cabinet radio and record player that played 78s. When my grandad died I was given that and all the old 78s including early Elvis, Johniie Ray, Paul Anka because I loved to play them. My father gave them all away to a colleague because he collected them. I came home from school one day to find them all gone. Can't describe my fury. I still have all my own singles and LPs.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I wear four generations of rings:. My own, my mother's and my great grandmother's wedding rings and my grandmother's engagement ring. My knuckles have expanded with age and I can't get them off.
I wear two of my great-grandmothers' wedding rings (Dad's mum's mum and Dad's dad's mum), and sandwiched between them my grandmother's (Mum's mum's) silver twist ring, every day.
My grandmother's piano had not been played since the war because with all the bomb damage it didn't sound right and it upset her to play it. We took it on about 3 years ago, nursed it back from the brink and it's been played by my daughters almost daily since.
But these are the things that I enjoy using most though: Mum's sieve and tupperware mixing bowl. Both must be at least my age as they were always there. And the bowl might look very ordinary - I have better looking ones - but is a delight to use. Everything I make in it turns out well.
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
We were watching Billy Elliot ( again ) last weekend. The scene where Dad smashes up the piano to make firewood has me in tears every time. Hubby said when they demolished the houses in Battersea at the end of the 60s, there were loads of pianos just left behind in them. Such a shame.
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Sometimes I see the bases used as a table and then the machine in another shop window
My radio I bought recently to listen to TMS lasted ....wait for it....25 months just a month after the guarantee.
When i was 25 I inherited my Grannies large bakelite radio which must have been 30 years old and it was sounding great
OH's aunty was in service in Reading and when the major died his wife said she could have it as a keepsake. Whenever OH visited as a boy he was the only one of the 3 kids fascinated by it so she left it to him. I love it.
Used to have a really old cabinet radio and record player that played 78s. When my grandad died I was given that and all the old 78s including early Elvis, Johniie Ray, Paul Anka because I loved to play them. My father gave them all away to a colleague because he collected them. I came home from school one day to find them all gone. Can't describe my fury. I still have all my own singles and LPs.
My grandmother's piano had not been played since the war because with all the bomb damage it didn't sound right and it upset her to play it. We took it on about 3 years ago, nursed it back from the brink and it's been played by my daughters almost daily since.
But these are the things that I enjoy using most though: Mum's sieve and tupperware mixing bowl. Both must be at least my age as they were always there. And the bowl might look very ordinary - I have better looking ones - but is a delight to use. Everything I make in it turns out well.
Hubby said when they demolished the houses in Battersea at the end of the 60s, there were loads of pianos just left behind in them. Such a shame.