And a nice new record or two to unpack on the floor in front of your TT?
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A new arrival from gay Paris 
Still waiting for a few to arrive as well 
Looks good there, Al
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needs bright orange curtains 
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Youâre right Chris they are the weak link but I canât afford to replace them.
They are fully lined and weighted and would likely be into four figures to replace. 
Got mine from this place, I just went for a standard white backing and they were only ÂŁ180
Quite slow to make and deliver but for the price, worth it
https://www.247curtains.co.uk/odessa-velvet-nectarine-made-to-measure-curtains
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Girl at our school in the 70s with Swedish parents had a very similar setup with light pine stripped floors.
Looked so futuristic at the time and still looks cool today
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Orange and green, my Mumâs 70s kitchen (Which they kept until the 90s)
FoL#2 is doing up the small bathroom in their newly acquired house. One of his work colleagues helpfully simmed a new one for him.
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that wallpaper and carpet is cool, but carpet in the khazi 
that wallpaper and carpet is coolâŠ
Heatstroke? 
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For my sins I used to collect canes / walking sticks.
These days I only have very few left, including this nice bit of snakewood with a gold (?) finial.
Anyway, thatâs not why Iâm here. What caught my eye today (because it was so dusty) was this. Unknown wood, with a silver finial engraved âFrom a hedge in Dominica (Br. W. Indies)â
I always imagined some toff hoiking a particularly nice-looking stick out of a hedge and instructing a minion to get it made into a cane.
Years later I stumbled across an indication that I might not have been too far off the mark. I believe that the coronet on the top of the finial
with four leaves and five pearls is that of an Earl or Countess
I assume that the letter is a stylised L so sadly it canât have belonged to the Earl of Sodbury.
Oh, and donât try taking extreme macro shots one-handed when your find motor skills are as shot as mine.
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Think it says 375 which would be 9ct so
Well, just over a third is anyway 
Perhaps look at Earls who owned âpropertyâ in Dominica
Could be the Earl of Leicester, hallmark is 1913 so that would be
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or
The Earl of Lonsdale (Hugh Lowther, 5th Earl): Known famously as the âYellow Earl,â he was one of the most famous, jet-setting, sports-loving aristocrats of the Edwardian era. He travelled globally and was famous for his grand style and love of unique canes.
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aristocratic relative @htm_1968
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