Antique Collectors Pillows

'As I recall you were the one who told him that he couldn't take it with him.'

It feels so weird when I forget my watch.

A Misdelivered Letter

"No, it wasn't a sinkhole. Your old TV was so heavy the ground could no longer take the weight."

Southwark Fair.

Barcode on Ancient Greek Vase

Trilby - 'Je prong!'

"Ikea for hippies" 1. Flimsig used pallets, old foam 2. Stinkum goat wool 3. Beetup recycled lumber 4. Riskig kerosene lamp 5. Stupor hand blown by Nils 6. Smokum found on beach in Mendocino 7. Woblig 100% driftwood

The original paperless office

Early Colour TV

Abandoning the computer for a typewriter.

A hammer in his den enjoying a cigar and port with his collection of trophy thumbs above his head.

'This is a wind-up, isn't it?'

The First Printed Bible

'No, you can't just watch the end of Bargainhunt!'

Pre-Television Man Caves

Estate Sale! All the stuff my kids said they don't want to inherit.

Stone Age women were less happy than men at the arrival of the iron age: Look what I've invented just for you darling.

Dinner at the Jolly Sandboys (opening to Ch 19)

"They lead a simple life - they don't even put gas in their cars."

JET (Part I)

Ye Old Cafe: No Coffee Today - Sore Arm!

Clock and Watch Shop: Second-Hand Clocks and Minute-Hand Clocks.

"There's lots of things in my life I absolutely needed to put in, and now there's lots of things in my life I absolutely need to get out."

Gadzook used armour. Only one careful owner.

At last, Clarence thought, the long-awaited return to the old economy had begun.

"If history has taught us anything, it's taught us that there have been a ridiculous number of books written about history."

'Oh I don't mind you turning over my cups to look at the mark. But next time, please finish your tea.'

"The keep saying unrestored and what a nice PATINA, Ted. A better-sounding word for old tarnished stuff would be SCRINCH or SKRITCH, don't you think, eh, Ted?"

"Grandma's TV is so old it wasn't made in a foreign country."

Grandfather Clock

Verbal Orders

"Haven't you a small one that would fit into a soldier's pack?"

"Perhaps you're right. Maybe we should upgrade our computer system."

They were long past their canine pasts, but the rare stamp brought out the beast in them.