One thing leads to a flipping nother!

A shop near us sells that heavy pvc table covering by the metre.
It's useful to put on the floor as well when the DGC want to play with cars, build lego etc.

I still have a few pieces of the Denby which is dark brown with lighter circles and maybe something else on it. Circa the 60's.
Also Green wheat.

I love that dark blue finish that Denby does - and the shapes of their mugs and things.

There is nothing special about our Denby - it's dark blue on the outside and pale blue on the inside. All seconds, from the factory shop and, seemingly, indestructible! Our best set is Denby too - cream with black line on, also seconds from the factory shop. It's all a bit boring!

On the bright side, we've bought a new light - now the wait for DH to put it up!

Just over a week ago we got sick of the almighty racket the old washing machine made when spinning and ordered a new one. It arrived last Saturday and we were thrilled with it but we both instantly said "Goodness the dishwasher looks really shabby next to it". So yes of course the matching dishwasher arrives on Wednesday. The one excuse I have is that the plastic bit you pull to open the old dishwasher is cracked and I kept catching my fingers in the crack, but I had mainly solved that by making him indoors responsible for loading it.

Still using Denby plates I bought 40 years ago when I first married, mixing it with another Denby set in the same colour, different style, that I bought 25 years when I moved into this house, so I can make some things last.

On the Denby theme -- we have a large collection of Greenwhich, about 20 years old. The only bits to get broken were cups and the design changed, so we mixed and matched them with the green with blue inside, in the original design.
I was walking past a charity shop and they had just put 6 original Greenwich cups in the window. I could believe my luck.

It certainly does last and last!

Suzie, the table we have just bought is Ercol. I love their retro stuff. We first bought Ercol (a refectory table which is in pieces in the garage) in 1975 and have recently redone our dining room in Danish retro teak. We have a brick wall on which I hang retro Denby and our everyday stuff will be a contender soon.

Sounds lovely, kitty. We have a full Ercol dining suite that has been in the family since 1958.
The table is a bit battle scared and we are having the debate whether to have the top refurbished or to let it show its age!

We had new everything when we moved 3 years ago, i fully expect to have the same furniture in 20 years might change the scatter cushions and light shades but i like to get my moneys worth. Biggest problem we have had is that we just never find the time to do the DIY we need to do as there is always a new place to visit and another beach to walk on. We have managed to plaster and decorate 1 room but by the time we get round to the rest the wallpaper we bought will be out of fashion

I like Ercol as it is made in England and good quality. This is especially so of the furniture made in the 1950s and 60s. I have a light beech coffee table with a ladder shelf underneath , made in the 50s which is still excellent, also one of their Windsor chairs, which has been updated with a retro Sanderson fabric. I also have a 1960s studio couch, You have to be careful though, as John Lewis have a range of "Ercol designs" which are made in China.