Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Coasting

I just ran across this in one of my other online lives (Yes, I have several, and we're all very happy in our different online worlds, thank'ee. We're never short for conversation amongst ourselves, and we're even quite entertaining sometimes.)

(But I digress.) Now I believe one is probably supposed to think how picturesque (or picture-skew as we have it here at Alf Towers), look at the light, pretty flowers, and so forth. Y'know, the whole atmospheric photograph shebang.


I took one look and thought:

No wonder the top of that table is warped to b*gg*ry if some barsteward puts damn flowers in water all over the top of it. Furniture killer. Die. Die. Die.

Ha-hum.

So, yeah, I may have had that reaction before. Pretty much any time I see my mother going anywhere near any woodwork with a watering can in her hand, akshully. She likes plants; I like wood without water marks. It's a domestic situation made in hell, if we're honest. But I staple my tongue to the floor to avoid saying anything about it, and she usually remembers to take a cloth to wipe up any spills immediately, so we muddle along without excessive bloodshed.

Anyway, looking beyond my initial reaction, this is evidently fairly "country" in style. Overlaid front rail; don't think I've seen that before. T&G top - or is that actually a loose tongue? Pegged tenons though, which is probably all that's keeping the whole thing from falling apart. So, no, not Chippendale, but that's a useful little table. C'mon, non-woodworking world. Have a heart. Put a coaster under those damn flowers, okay?

5 comments:

  1. Shouldn't you tell this the other world? We know.

    Nice picture!

    Cheers Pedder

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  2. Lashings of linseed oil is the answer to everything.

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  3. Here here and there there too.

    Oh, and while we're about it, please - no silicon infused polish either.

    Stephen Ruddock
    New Zealand

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  4. Mmm, i think the milkman should
    take his bottles back. That'd sort
    the booger out.

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  5. Hi Alf-
    It Is a nice picture. But, that's what they used to make Doilies for... endlessly, doilies, doilies, doilies. I live with my mother, too, who is 91. Your blog made me smile.

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