Farewell to Some Old friends

 

Not people; but chairs. 

These belonged to my grandmother; in fact they belonged to my great aunt before that and I assume they came from a set of six but two were all my grandmother had. My parents kept them and at some stage they came to me.They were what Peter Kay calls 'spurr churrs'  but it's a long time since they have ben called into service. We did have them recovered a few years ago but basically they have just been sat in the spare room for years. There is no room for them in the new house, not nohow so, with a heavy heart I took them to the Orkney Reuse and Recycle centre this morning  where the man in charge was very enthusiastic about how nice they were. In fact he waxed  so enthusiastic that he almost made me want to bring them back home with me. 

But sadly there's no point in taking them all the way to the Central Belt where they would sit, in the way and unused again for decades more. I was very sorry to say goodbye to then but the time had come.