Overwhelming Going On Oppressive
Aug. 9th, 2023 08:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo Just round the corner from the Meeting House is the Barley Sugar- a delicatessen-cum-quirky antique shop. We dropped in last Thursday and asked the owner if he'd like to buy some of our quirky antiques.
My parents bought and inherited quirky antiques. Their stuff suited their rambling 19th century farmhouse, but looks less at home in our 1930s semi. Some of their pieces are overwhelming going on oppressive. Ailz has been working at a very handsome Regency bureau- lovely thing but not designed to function as modern office space. We need to get rid, rearrange, buy new...
The Barley Sugar man came round yesterday. He bought a number of items, big and small. He gave us £100 for a brassbound 19th century campaign chest which I didn't think we'd ever shift- except, perhaps, by chucking it in a skip. It stinks of mothballs. "No problem," said the man. "Everything does."
(Moth balls- one of the defining scents of the mid-20th century. My mother got her taste for them from her mother. When i smell moth balls I think of my granny- which is why I find them less repellent than Ailz does.)
The Barley Sugar hasn't taken the overwhelming going on oppressive Regency bureau, but we have a couple of people who are "interested". One way or another it's going out the door...
My parents bought and inherited quirky antiques. Their stuff suited their rambling 19th century farmhouse, but looks less at home in our 1930s semi. Some of their pieces are overwhelming going on oppressive. Ailz has been working at a very handsome Regency bureau- lovely thing but not designed to function as modern office space. We need to get rid, rearrange, buy new...
The Barley Sugar man came round yesterday. He bought a number of items, big and small. He gave us £100 for a brassbound 19th century campaign chest which I didn't think we'd ever shift- except, perhaps, by chucking it in a skip. It stinks of mothballs. "No problem," said the man. "Everything does."
(Moth balls- one of the defining scents of the mid-20th century. My mother got her taste for them from her mother. When i smell moth balls I think of my granny- which is why I find them less repellent than Ailz does.)
The Barley Sugar hasn't taken the overwhelming going on oppressive Regency bureau, but we have a couple of people who are "interested". One way or another it's going out the door...
