Oak furniture is us
24 August 2010
Having spent too long with a couple of items of furniture that we weren’t happy with, Jim decided that the time had come to buy a new coffee table. preferably with some storage. After lots of searching we found this Summit coffee table from John Lewis. We ordered on line and it was delivered FREE a few days later.
The table is good solid oak with a sliding drawer along one length of the table; ideal for magazines, remote controls etc. It looks fantastic with our oak book case that we’d already got. In fact it looked so good that Jim then decided to buy a lamp table to finish off the room. This time we found our ideal purchase in Debenhams.
We got this Tate lamp table with delivery at just £3.50 (rather than the £25 charge if bought in store). It was delivered by a friendly delivery man, ready assembled and all packaging removed and disposed of. It has a really deep drawer that Jim has decided will be ideal for storing DVDs, not that he has actually done this yet, but I’m assured he will soon!
Both peices of furniture look fabulous together without looking as though they came from the same shop and same line. Service and delivery from both retailers was excellent and we are thoroughly pleased with our buys!
Click here to see the Tate range at Debenhams.
Click here to see the Summit range at John Lewis.
At last, new saucepans!
24 August 2010
We finally managed to find the perfect saucepans at a reasonable price! We had made do with our very worn pans for too long, but to be fair buying cookware isn’t exactly top of the list of things to do. It’s not very exciting is it?
We were on our search for the perfect coffee table which led us to John Lewis. Browsing at various other things, as you do, I came across these saucepans. I must admit the colour was what attracted me to them, but at £80 for the set the price was pleasing on the eye too.
Well, we’ve had the pans for a good couple of months now and I still adore them. They have worn well and make cooking a pleasure; well almost!
The non stick Teflon coat certainly is much appreciated when it comes to washing up. The food never sticks and just rinses off without the need for any elbow grease. The old pans were rather worn and food did tend to get stuck.
If Chilli red is not your colour then click here to look at the other colours available.
Relaxing bath pillow
5 January 2010
I bought this bath pillow and have only today managed to use it. It is fabulous. It has two little suction pads that hold it in pace and the all you need to do is rest back and relax!
I usually shower, but when I do have a bath I have previously used a towel to rest my head on. It is useless in comparison to this pillow. I could’ve happily stayed there for ever!
It has a removable cover for washing and as my son used it before me and managed to leave it in the bath where his brother left it whilst he showered, I can tell you it dries out easily too! I put it in the washing machine to ’spin’ as it was sodden as you can imagine, but it dried out perfectly.
This would make a fantastic little gift for someone, especially with valentine’s day and Mother’s day coming up. Add some nice bubble bath and candles and it’s the perfect present!
What an excellent present …
9 June 2009
… even if I say so myself!
For Christmas I bought Jim a driving experience, which he has just done. He drove a Lamborghini and a Ferrari a couple of weeks ago. It was a great day out for him, although I must confess it wasn’t such a great day for me. He had to have a briefing prior to the drive and then was taken in a ‘normal’ car around the track and given further instruction. Spectators are left to watch the cars and other drivers getting in and out of the very beautiful cars, but that’s all there is for them to do. If you too love fast cars, you may well be left marvelling at these fine spectacles. However, I’m of the if you’ve seen one you’ve seen them all school of thinking, so wasn’t left over impressed looking at the many cars on show. However, I waited in the sunshine for Jim to take his turn.
Sadly I got to see him get in and out of the car and occasional glimpses of the car as it went around the track in front of me. The experience was not thrilling for me. However, Jim loved it, which is really how it should be! He has now decided that we won’t bother with a Lamborghini, he much preferred the Ferrari!!! Dream on matey!
If you’re looking for a gift for the driving fanatic there are many to choose from. You can also book drives for younger members of the family too, which is on my ideas list for Son Number One, who is a dab hand at the PS3 driving games and who will all too soon be behind the wheel of a real car.
Take a look here in our shop for a full list of driving experiences.
Another TV?
23 March 2009
This time it wasn’t really for us, but for my nan. Over the last few weeks two of her TVs have stopped working. I found the latest casualty when I visited last week. She isn’t able to get out, so she relies on her TV for ‘company’, which is how she describes it. I gave her one of our TVs, which left us short, so we took the opportunity to find a TV with an ipod dock for Son Number Two.
He has an ipod touch, which doesn’t fit in to his old Ipod dock and so to charge it he needed to connect it tot he PC. This wasn’t really practical as we often found the PC left on for days on end! Our research (or more precisely Jim’s as I am a technohpobe) led us to realise we needed to take the ipod with us and actually try it out on the TVs. Currys had this TV that I reserved for us and off we went to try before we bought!
Sadly when we got there this TV didn’t have the audio out ( I think) that was required for the surround sound that he has. The picture quality was also not as good as TVs at or around the same price, but without the iPod dock. Instead we found this TV (Samsung SM933HD) in Comet, which has a fabulous picture quality. It looks great in white, although, in fairness, we believed we’d bought a black one until we opened the box at home! It was so simple to tune in. Press a button and away it went and even put the programmes in their correct place.
Next we needed a dock for the ipod, which led us on another search. Our local Richer sounds had this Cambridge Audio iPod audio dock for £30, which charges the iPod and plays the sound through the surround sound, but not through the TV, which is not a problem for us. For an extra £10 we got a cute little remote control, which is what every lazy boy needs!
So we have a great little TV for Son Number Two and an iPod dock that does what we need it to do!
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