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Friday, October 21, 2005
The great 'days off' experiment: day 2
Even though I still had another day off and the whole weekend ahead of me, I'd started to mourn the end of my holidays by Thursday evening. This isn't unusual for me: I'm never happier than when I've got something miserable to think about. So I tried to stay up as late as possible, you know, to make the most of it all. I made it to about five past midnight.
I got up quite early on Friday as we were going to an auction in Grange over Sands - we're after a big pine kitchen table. I've never been to an auction before, but have seen the new breed of daytime reality shows that feature antiques, attics, and auctions, so I was, in theory, an expert.
This is how it worked: we turned up early, looked around, got a bidder's number and sat down. There was all sorts of stuff, basically house clearances: plates, cutlery, golf clubs, pianos, tables, sofas, stereos, carpets, a wheelchair, binoculars, LPs.... The auctioneer then started doing the old "who'll give me £2, yes? £3, £4, £5" etc. It's quite exciting, and fascinating to watch. There was an incredible amount of junk sold for very little money - one man's tat is another man's tat.
There wasn't a table we liked, but there was a fender Corrie liked, so she bid on it, but was outbid. Oh well. The auction was to go on all day, and there was only one other thing we were interested in, so we drove over to Kendal to buy some curtains for our front bedroom. Corrie's just put them up, which means that room is finally complete!
We returned to the auction on the way back, and sat in as the bidding moved onto the furniture. We used to have a lovely old piano at my mum and dad's and I'd always planned to get another when I had my own house. Well, I have my own house, but no room to put it in. Which is a shame because there was a really nice piano at the auction that sounded really good. The auctioneer started off at £5... no-one bid, and it went unsold! I could have stuck my hand up and said "£1" and it would have been mine! Oh well.
Anyway, the thing we wanted was way down the list and we had to go home, so we left without bidding on it. I then fixed the reverse light and indicator on my Land Rover (in the rain), had a bath (as per Emma's suggestion, albeit without the face pack) and watched 'The West Wing' and 'QI'.
The holidays are over: all we have left is the weekend.
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