PM’s refurbishment bill - tablecloth!

I love the idea of your heirloom tablecloth Richmondpark

I used to like the plain paper cloths which the kids could scribble on and on which the waiters totted up the bill remember those days?

Costs are all relative though aren't they. As Mr Micawber said
you know.
"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds, nineteen and sixpence, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.”
David Copperfield (1850)

I bought a very long, wide tablecloth for £9 from Lidl a few years back and have used it every Christmas since. It's washable and perfect for when everyone comes to dinner. Went back to try to buy another but they were never seen again.

Okay, fact of the day Dilly is that the fabric used on public transport is called Moquette

Maybe rather than Carrie Antoinette it's actually Carrie Moquette

JaneJudge can actually say I just spilled my tea. Howling with tears of laughter. Dh just shouted ‘what’s wrong with you woman’.
Love the fact of the day and also the fantastic descriptor for Carrie’s fabric ?

JaneJudge

Maybe rather than Carrie Antoinette it's actually Carrie Moquette

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I think that they (all incumbents of No10) should have to return the flat to an original standard - something neutral like Magnolia throughout before leaving, so the next one doesn’t have to spend ££££ to refurbish it again. Do they get to keep the furniture and items such as the hideous drinks trolley when they go? Maybe they should have to be sold too, and the money used to offset the next £30k binge.

I don’t live in a world where people pay £250 a roll for wallpaper, but others do, and it’s not that in itself that I object to. It’s the sense of entitlement that leads to someone with a very generous and publicly funded budget having to borrow so much more and doing so from a party donor. That smacks of corruption (and definitely has the potential for it) whether there was any in this case or not - it is still being investigated, remember. I also think what are now called ‘the optics’ look bad when foodbank use is so high and that the decoration was happening at a time when Johnson was resisting Marcus Rashford’s campaign to feed children in the holidays.