Vintage Shop Owner Mugs

"Thanks. It's vintage."

"I wonder what this was for."

"It's not outdated - it's retro."

Downsizing Pushback

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

Cocktails on the verandah.

Sir Winston Churchill

"Freudian, Jungian, Adlerian – none of it compares to retail therapy."

Second hand furniture.

Military Medals

"This is a clever little shop. It makes you think it would be fun to own a lamp."

'My luck, I buy a bottle of wine from 450 B.C. and it's still five years from reaching maturity.'

Pashminas are sooo noughties!

Barcode on Ancient Greek Vase

'It's genuine 17th century satsuma - and the pair would have been worth ?14,000.'

Early Piety

Abandoning the computer for a typewriter.

Trilby - 'Je prong!'

"If you wish to manifest here, you'll have to change. We don't allow anything past 1950."

'No, I'm not the sommelier; in fact, I don't even work here - I've just always wanted to try this wine.'

Illustration from an Unpublished Novel

Early Colour TV

'A Ball at the Mansion House'

"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

'Jerry's 'old school'.'

Grandma's caf

"Are you looking to accentuate or camouflage?"

"Diamonds are so three billion years ago..."

Ladies by the seaside

"How soon will this be a remnant

An old-time engineer enters the cockpit on a flight.

"I love these old decorations!"

The Young Ladies' Young Gentleman

A Footnote - Self Portrait of Beardsley, Bound to the God of Nature