An old school desk

I recently picked up this most marvellous old school desk, in a charity shop, for the grand price of just £2.00!  Yep, two shiny pound coins.

I shoved it in the car quick (or rather Hubster did) and dropped it straight off with Daddy L for a quick clean up,  (because he is good at that  :), and it was rather grubby).

When it was all clean and ship-shape, it came back to me. But I needed drawers.  And would you believe it my RUB (REally Useful Box) 4 litre fitted perfectly.  I needed another 14 of them  :)

But the,  just to throw a spanner in the works, when I went to get them I spotted a Curver A4 tray, which also fits perfectly.

Now I cannot decide which one to use.  The RUB box at £5.00 each or the Curver Tray at £3.00 each.

Will trays be easier, are boxes more useful?  Will the lids get on my nerves?   Arggghhhhhh.

Help me choose!

My very exciting Charity Shop find

Going back to my previous post about charity shop shopping in Oxfordshire, did you work out what it was that might have got me so excited.

I said that you could see it in one of the photos.  This one in fact....

This is it!  Can you see it in the photo above?  But what might it be?

An old Singer sewing machine. 

As soon as I saw the box, I knew. It is the same machine that I learnt on many moons ago.  My Gran had one and I was allowed to "play" with it, although I don't remember making anything in particular, just sewing lines up bits of old fabric.

Look at the bobbin and boat shuttle, a little different to the ones we have these days.

You wind the bobbin up, somehow, on this part, I seem to recollect, can't quite remember how to do it so I am hoping my Mum might help with that.

The little brush was also tucked inside the box.

And the bargain price?   £35!

Old (new) meets new (old).

Well, there was one person that worked it out, so very well done to you Maggie, there will be a little surprise winging it's way to you very soon  :)