Only joking. Although like most Virgos (that includes you Fiona,) there's a fine line between being terribly interested in a subject and being obsessed with it, and from there it's a short hop, skip and a jump to stalking Helen Yemm and cluttering up your house ready for a visit from Kim and Aggie. My current interest (bordering on the obsessive) is buying wooden kitchen chairs. It began ordinarily enough with a swan-backed elm Ercol chair, which I have in my kitchen near the radiator. Then I clapped eyes on another Ercol chair outside a charity shop on my way to Sainsbury's. Then I found another and then got a set of four for a fiver.
I'm planning to paint them dove grey, pale cream and other lovely washed-out colours and use them as garden chairs, since I'm now at an age when fabric-backed director's chairs just don't give sufficient back support for an afternoon spent feasting and chatting around my garden table. Billy Connolly does a great sketch about becoming an age when you can't get in and out of a chair without growling and groaning with your back... I used to laugh at that sketch; now I understand it.
Helen Yemm is opening her garden in Wadhurst, East Sussex, on Sunday 5 June as part of the Wadhurst Open Gardens 2011 weekend. Check out Helen's blog for details and tickets etc. I'm seriously thinking of going, if I get some assurances that Helen hasn't called the police department; got some marksmen...
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