I was reading this thread at lunchtime, sitting at my dining table where I'd just finished a Teams meeting on the work laptop. I looked around at the furniture in the dining part of the room and realised that I didn't have a SINGLE PIECE of Cotswold furniture, nary a one.
While I realise that this would prove to Jack that I'm a total povo, I rather like my inlaid wood dining table, six chairs and two carvers with hand canvas seats (£50 plus auctioneer's fee and delivery), early Victorian china cupboard (shockingly around £400 which made me gulp), wooden shelf unit (£30?) and wall display cabinet (£50?). I don't have a single sideboard but I love all the pieces that I do have which suit an older style house and which I've put together through auctions, Gumtree, Facebook, small ads, and inheritance since I moved into my one bedroom flat with a microwave, bed and my parents' old conservatory furniture (only got rid of this year after 30+ years of use). All this is my own style and likes, rather than just opening a catalogue and buying the lot. It's also bloody cheaper.
I don't think that Jack knows what her own taste is, anymore than she really knows who she is. All she knows is to throw money at something, whether it's multiple Cotswold sideboards, Apple tech, Burberry scarf and coats, fashionable trainers or whatever. There's nothing that's as cheap as chips but she loves anyway. She just tries to buy taste and a personality but it's really not working.
).they will either be blank or turn black she could be in for a shock when she turfs them out
