Still here...

[Now why did I type the word "still" and have to fight a temptation to follow it with "crazy after all these years"? Too much retro listening, courtesy of Amazon and YouTube?]

I'm sitting here in the gloom reading Life on the C Train, the blog of a lady I'll never meet called Clare who writes beautifully, and generally helps me find a lighter way to look at things, and thinking "Hmmmm! Must do something on my blog... "

So here's a start!

Well, no photos yet [they're living in the camera; or are they just shy?] and as the place is a mess again, I might just wait till David comes back and take some more photos when we've moved all our furniture!

Yup! We went out & went a bit potty!

For the price of 2 dressers (i.e. prices that we have seen in England/a more expensive dépôt-vente), we bought:

• 4 dressers
• 2 tables (these were included with 2 of the dressers: a set called a salle à manger, but I suspect David thinks of it as a BOGOF!)
• 13 chairs (as above)
• 1 sideboard
• 2 wardrobes
• 1 bed frame (BOGOF, as before)
• 1 desk
• a trouser/jacket stand (think "Corby", but without the press bit)
• 1 bedside table

And on one of the days we weren't looking for furniture/borrowing a van to bring furniture home/going to Troyes to load furniture into a van so the bloke could deliver it, we went and...

Bought a boulangère stand!

My excuse is that at 20% off, it was worth it to buy it a day earlier - paid for the diesel we used and then some!

So, the long and the short of it is: lots of old furniture [either with woodworm, or that has been standing around for months next to furniture that has woodworm] artfully arranged around the kitchen so that I can get at almost all of it to give it three coats of woodworm treatment...

No photos here then!