At the moment, the boy is driving (that’s a lie, his grandfather is driving) to Edinburgh to pick up the pool table I bought him for his 24th birthday. You have no idea how excited I am, I’ve wanted to buy him a pool table for so long, and in a few hours it’ll be all set up in his garage.
It took a long time to find one to buy, we ended up going with one off eBay that was slightly damaged. There’s nothing wrong with the actual playing surface, just the little window at the side where you see the potted balls is missing, which is easy to fix. We got it for 10% of the retail price, which is £3,100. There’s one other problem, the cloth is lilac but I’ve been reading up on recovering / refelting pool tables and actually it doesn’t look that hard. Plus our friend’s dad is an absolute pool shark and should be able to give us a hand doing it as he’s done it before.
At this moment the boy plus the 5 students we’ve bought it off of will be carrying the slate bed down 2 flights of stairs, don’t envy them one bit! Funnily enough they failed to mention that they lived in a flat when we bid for it.
Anyways, I’m going to read my new book that I got in the RBL last night for 50p, Number 10 by Sue Townsend. Looks excellent, so I’m going to sit for a while with a huge cup of coffee and an Easter egg (yes, we still have Easter eggs left!) reading it.
Oh, random.. The Fratelli’s new song is excellent. Just heard it on E4 music. New album soon please, boys.
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May 25, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Katy (14 comments.)
I’d love a pool table! Thats great you got it so cheap too. Hopefully it doesn’t cost too much to re-cover it to get rid of the lilac.
Let me know what that book is like. I’ve been looking at that for a while. I think I’ll be sitting down with my book for a good couple of hours once Alex is at band practice :). I’ve only got 120 pages left so might even finish it.
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