In a Monthly Favourites first, I have included something that only appeared on the scene a few minutes before I started filming. In fact, when I think about it properly, it shouldn’t even be in the June Favourites because I got it in July! Oh well, let’s not split hairs: this find was so amazing it had to be featured immediately. But perhaps what was even more amazing than the find itself was where the find was found.
At a car boot sale.
I have resisted Mr AMR’s attempts to get me to go to a car boot sale for over nine years – I think the last one we went to was in Southampton the year after we got married – but yesterday I agreed to have a mooch around our local one, primarily because the chicken feed shop wasn’t open for another forty minutes and it was too hot to sit in the car. (Oh, how life has changed.)  Anyway, we dondered on in, past the man with the megaphone selling meat from the side of a lorry and there was the Peacock Chair of dreams staring us in the face. Why on earth nobody had snapped it up I have no idea; an original cane chair from the sixties, great condition, an iconic piece that would look good pretty much anywhere… I’m going to waft about in kaftans and get Mr AMR to take soft-focus backlit photos of me draped over its arms. Hopefully the dog won’t try to eat the new chair, because he quite likes basket-y, rattan-y stuff – he’s chewed my Fortnum & Mason picnic hamper, the littl...