An unplanned day out

 I popped round to my friend Pam yesterday, as I was fed up with my four walls.  She was fed up with hers too, so we had an impromptu day out to Leominster.  She'd never been before.  These photos were taken in the best emporium.  Another one Keith and I had been to regularly was moving elsewhere in the town, as the house had been sold.  A lovely local lady we were talking to thought the new owner might  get a shock when he found out the poor state it was in.  It's listed too.  

I imagine the HUGE Victorian dresser is a permanent piece of display furniture.  So few houses big enough to house that now.  It's been there all the time Keith and I have been going there.  We used to visit in January, as our wedding anniversary fell then and not many places we could go for a day out.

This would have looked good in our old home.

The top picture is an Elizabethan stumpwork one.  I have never seen one that wasn't a book illustration before and thrilled to see this, and the two pieces below too.  Rare survivors.

Ditto, this would have looked good at Ynyswen too.  Below are some more great bits of furniture.

Below: elsewhere in another shop.

Above is a miniature dresser and equally miniature blue and white china.

A bigger version.

I didn't put up the photo of the one thing I really really wanted (Keith was at my elbow . . .)  I am trying to talk myself out of it as I don't NEED it, but it would look good here, and a piece which has to come down to be sold is more valuable so would cover the cost when it sells . . .  This isn't a ridiculous price either.  Watch this space.