Book Question

Sideboards are good. (few of d youf will have a clue what one is like, but hey)

Welsh dressers though not good, bordering on evil. Satans furniture.

They look fab in old films though. I remember the hideous and huge teak sideboard we had in the seventies. Sliding doors in the middle. I scratched the top of it running my Ford Torino down it though and got walloped.
 
They look fab in old films though. I remember the hideous and huge teak sideboard we had in the seventies. Sliding doors in the middle. I scratched the top of it running my Ford Torino down it though and got walloped.

we had a huge one, hinged doors at either end and three draws in the middle.

that was replaced with a sliding door type made from plastic covereed chip board.

'antique emporium' near me sells 'em now !!
 
Book Storage

Temperature and Humidity

Ideal levels are 68-72° F, with 40-50% RH. Monitor temperature and humidity levels. Excessive fluctuations in temperature and relative humidity can be particularly damaging to book.

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And read the books. Don't just leave them to gather dust.

I am waiting for the shops to reopen. We have a special book which we bought as our first non-essential purchase shortly after we got married 48 years ago,

It was a large Victorian leatherbound copy of Cervantes Don Quixote in English with 1,000 Gustave Dore illustrations. We had gone out for the day to Hastings and were walking through the Old Town when we saw the book in a secondhand bookshop's window. When we walked back it was still there. We coveted it but couldn't really afford it.

We checked exactly how much money we had between us. We were going to buy Fish and Chips. If we didn't, we could just about afford the price of ten pounds and have a few small coins left.

We bought it but had to live on the contents of our kitchen store cupboard for the remainder of the month.

Now, 48 years later, much read and much loved, the front board has become detached. I want to get it repaired so it can remain our most precious book. That repair will cost far more than the ten pounds but it is a reminder of our first weeks of marriage when we agreed that some things were worth a sacrifice.
 
And read the books. Don't just leave them to gather dust.

I am waiting for the shops to reopen. We have a special book which we bought as our first non-essential purchase shortly after we got married 48 years ago,

It was a large Victorian leatherbound copy of Cervantes Don Quixote in English with 1,000 Gustave Dore illustrations. We had gone out for the day to Hastings and were walking through the Old Town when we saw the book in a secondhand bookshop's window. When we walked back it was still there. We coveted it but couldn't really afford it.

We checked exactly how much money we had between us. We were going to buy Fish and Chips. If we didn't, we could just about afford the price of ten pounds and have a few small coins left.

We bought it but had to live on the contents of our kitchen store cupboard for the remainder of the month.

Now, 48 years later, much read and much loved, the front board has become detached. I want to get it repaired so it can remain our most precious book. That repair will cost far more than the ten pounds but it is a reminder of our first weeks of marriage when we agreed that some things were worth a sacrifice.

I love this. :heart::heart::heart:
 
Brought a tear to my eye aswell. Must've been a bloody big cupboard though.
 
Dried pasta 48 years ago! you posh git.

Posh sister-in-law who worked at Cambridge University and shopped in Fortnum and Mason's.

Wedding present from my young nieces and nephews was a gallon jar of Heinz Ketchup...
 
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