Life and people
There are all sorts of people, obvious I know, but there is a point.

For many years now I have had an arrangement with a local department store to retouch/repair where economic furniture about which they had a complaint (sometimes the manufacturer would replace the item). In recent times the amount of minor faults seems to have been increasing and several of the well known mid range firms (i.e. not MFI!) have been taken over/amalgamated, moved production offshore or switched to design only with the actual construction being farmed out to Thailand or, increasingly, China.

It reached the point where I was being asked to check over pieces direct from the manufacturing firms before sending them out to mthe customer and so, regretably, the store has decided to withdraw from selling furniture and the floor space turned over to women's fashion.

They are having a final furniture clearance sale and I've ended up doing a couple of retouch jobs on the sale items. Tomorrow I have to 'sort out' a dining table - the problem? one of the legs has a rough spot and 'the lady fears for her tights!'

Without seeing it I can't be sure, but I've handled furniture of the same design and it's probably something curable with a few light passes with a decent wax and a soft cloth, and for this I am to do a round trip of twenty to thirty miles!

Ah well I'll find out tomorrow.