Sold!

A family arrived this morning to take away my dining table and chairs that sold online during the week.  My husband and I purchased it around two years ago and it is solid timber (I believe it is Vietnamese pine) and very heavy.  The sort of sturdy heavy that would make it an excellent place to shelter beneath during an earthquake!  I loved the small side drawer in this table, as it was a great place to keep place-mats, but with only one smallish dining area in this house and a rimu dining suite already in residence, my big table was superfluous and so I listed it for sale on Trade Me (our online marketplace similar to Ebay).  It is nice to see it going to a family who can make good use of it.

The pine dining table and chairs, sold to a family today

I think that will be the last big thing I need to dispose of.  I thought about selling my dressing table but have decided I will keep that.  It is a beautiful piece of wood furniture, about eighty years old, and will be far more durable than the new drawers it is keeping company with.  The drawers may be nice, as they are still new, but they will not last the distance as they are only made of veneered particle board.  Nothing beats good solid timber, and maybe one day my dressing table will become someone’s treasured antique.  Don’t look too closely at my photo though!  I see that reflected in the mirror is the pile of goodies that I am still working through to sort out.  One day my bedroom will be neat and tidy and not have piles of stuff-to-sort-out in it anymore.  Won't that be nice?

My rimu dressing table

The weather today has been blustery and cloudy, but our early morning showers have gone and some weak sunshine has being doing its best to cheer the day up.  Not enough to entice me outside though.  I wrote a long email to my daughter and then watched a couple of documentaries on Netflix about Ancient Civilisations – very thought provoking, to think there may have been people living on this earth long before our current recorded history.

A rose covered water-wheel with punga tree-ferns in the background

The Rugby World Cup quarter-finals begin tonight, so it will be another late night for me.  First there will be the England v Australia match, followed by our own All Blacks playing Ireland.  I am expecting both to be good games to watch, but TV coverage for the All Blacks match does not begin until 11.15pm so it will be tomorrow before I can lay down my head.  Just as well I sneaked off for a quick snooze after lunch!

Have a great weekend,

Margaret