A good quick fix

These are two more inherited pieces of furniture – I am just starting to look at the spare bedroom and they are to go in it.

Although they look nice together – they are not a pair – the mirror is late Victorian/Edwardian, and the table is probably 50 years earlier (around the time Castlebank House was built).  The table is a sewing table and actually has lots of needles and thread in it (not the original Victorian ones!).

The mirror is actually a very rare example of something that was easier to fix than I thought it would be.  One of the side arms was very “shooglie” and loose to the extent that it was not going to be secure holding the mirror (which is quite heavy).  I thought I was going to have to remove it altogether, clean it and glue it back in.  However, I had a bright idea and realized that all it in fact needed was a little padding to stabilize it and stop it rocking about.  I needed a very small thin piece of wood – and what does R have but many many dental sticks (he leaves them on the floor to damage feet and hoovers).  A small piece broken off one and pushed into the gap fixed the problem immediately and invisibly.  Sorted.

I also put a sign I made on my office door.

R says he is not junior staff.  J has not commented yet – he has come down with Covid and is currently confined to his basement – food is being left behind the door.