A Bug's Life

Small broken table has gone off with a chap who will fix it, after pulling faces and discovering many, many little broken parts. I did check that he wanted a fiddly time-consuming job before he took it! Meanwhile another chap came to look at a larger hinged round table (also from Grandma) which is lovely but I don't use, and gave me more money for it than the repair work will be for the small table. Result! And I found why there was a ring of small dents on the underside - people used to spin wool and screw their spinny thing over the table edge, the dents are where it was attached. I knew some of the history of the table, but apparently not all of it. tamaranth said it was a palimpsest. Once they have fixed it up and done the specialist cleaning that I can't, they can sell it for more money.

I feel like a good little bourgeouis local economic pump. Cabinet makers and antiques dealers won't go hungry tonight.