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Wednesday, 12 December 2007
During a recent discussion on articles we should produce next year someone suggested that we should look at the antiques market and find someone to write articles about antiques and during a brief meeting with Michael Hogben in Waitrose Hythe we suggested he might like to write several articles a year for us but regrettably he is busy with several TV project relating to travel.

Wishing Michael all the best with his new ventures we had a rethink and it was suggested that we would be hard-pressed in a hundred years time to find an antique or collectable from this century as much of what we produced now was designed to be thrown

Kadloo Desk Designer Bethan Gray
Kadloo Desk Designer Bethan Gray
away within a short time of being purchased.  That our minimalist attitude and reduced living space with few marriages and short relationships there would be little reason to buy with quality in mind, durability or something to pass onto the kids.  Our mindset would be for Ikea as top purchase and MFI so that when our relationships failed the financial loss would be minimal.

Given that few relationships will last more than a few years and we are clever enough to have a hording instinct and manage to keep certain purchases for ourselves we set out to buy, over the next twelve months, items that will last more than a century, will not be affected by fashion and should have more value in 100 years than they do now..
It would be difficult for us to write this from a woman’s point of view as we are all men so we have set our selves a life style that says we are reasonably successful..  That over the next forty years of our life we are going to have four long term relationships that last five to seven years.  From those relationships there will be two to three children and there will also be children attached to those relationships.  The women will have some security in their lives having lived with a partner and brought a property together.  That during relationships both parties keep their property and moving in with the other whilst letting their home.

We though of investing in a number of areas including glass and ceramics and decided that anything that can be easily thrown would be a poor investment especially with at least four relationship breakdowns.  Jewellery was an another  no, no as the women would most likely believe it to have been a gift.  So with that in mind we visited our first shop and had five hundred pounds in spare cash to play with.

Our first port of call was Habitat, as many of us do or will work from home a desk was an important piece of furniture.  Habitat had several desk and we liked the traditional looking Kadloo designed by Bethan Gray.  The desk is solid oak and veneered particle board, the oak was not a problem as oak will last several hundred years and tends to become harder with age.  The worry is the veneered particle board, if the veneer is ever damaged and damp attacks the board we have a problem though with care and few moves it should last.   The desk was a little more expensive than we wanted at £699 so nearly £200 went on our credit card.

We think we made a good purchase, what do you think?
   
   
   
   
   
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Copyright (C) 2007 Alain Georgette / Copyright (C) 2006 Frantisek Hliva. All rights reserved.
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 It appears the Telegraph has death on the mind or there is very little interesting news to report from around the world.  We do not need too much convincing that we are not only running out of space to build new homes we are also running out of space to bury the dead.

  
 The Victorians recognised this problem and began building crematoriums the most majestic of these I believe to be the North London Crematorium at Golders Green.  I say that because the majority of my ancestors from the past one-hundred years are scattered there as are some of the most famous British people.  The Victorians’ thought that it would be a little like a library or block of flats with row upon row of shelves and cubby holes were we could store our loved ones ashes.  Regrettably, they ran out of space.

A similar problem has occurred in churches and the graveyards have run out of space.  The Church has now agreed to woodland burials and have, in some areas, consecrated the ground for Christian burial.  This was a very urgent matter as many towns in England no longer had space to bury the dead.
 There has been some concern that the Church of England, having had difficulty managing and caring for graves near churches will find it even more difficult to care for woodland graves that may be some distance from a church.  The Church of England dismiss this though have made it know that there will be no gravestones only biodegradable wooden plaques; they have also suggested that a tree be planted with the body.

Tree and body planting would probably be more acceptable to many than heating and lighting the crematorium. Folkestone Magazine would like to take that a little further and suggest the burial be handled by the family and a tree chopped down and hollowed out and used as a coffin.  The bark, branches and chippings could be put to one side for Indian Funerals.  A woodland funeral could become a regular event for families bringing them back together. The celebrity chefs could show us how to prepare backed potatoes in their jackets, hot roast chestnuts and mulled wine for the winter and light smoked salmon salads using woodland herbs for the warmer days.
   
   
   
   
   
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