If it's not music, it's the telly and if it's not that then we can find it anywhere.
We'll go out and buy things on a whim just because we like them. I've not really thought about it much until this morning when I had two electricians in our house to carry out some work.
On their way out they were stood in our hallway and commented on the old telephone we had on the side. It's an old dial-up phone and he said that when he was at home, his Dad had a lock fitted on it so that they couldn't keep using the phone.
Then his mate mentioned our little petrol pump ornament that stands on top of our old radiogram.
Speaking of the radiogram, we bought that some time ago when we visited a second-hand shop on its opening day. We both saw it and fell in love with it and wanted to buy it. It had no price on it, so we asked the shop owner how much it was.
She told us that it wasn't for sale as it didn't work and she was just using it for display. We told her we'd be willing to buy it nonetheless. We agreed on a price and brought it home with us.
When we got home, I plugged it in any way just to see. Surprisingly, it came on and the radio part worked. The record player didn't.
I spoke to a friend of mine and he said next time he was out our way he'd take a look at it.
When he came, he brought his little toolbox, sat in the hallway, took it to pieces, and within 20 minutes, he had it working. I ordered a stylus online and it had played perfectly ever since.
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Perhaps, we should rein it in a bit, but when we see such nice stuff, it seems a shame to see it elsewhere.
I think we need a bigger house!
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