Last weekend we went to our favourite campsite outside Winchester (Folly Farm), using it as a base for attending the Goodwood Revival near Chichester on Saturday.
We'd ordered a base for my ash table top the last time we were there - there's a woodworking barn next to the campsite that specialises in wooden dining tables and we were rather taken with their work. It's called Steven Baker Furniture.
As it transpired, the chap who runs the woodwork workshop spotted us on the Friday and informed us that our table base would be ready on Sunday and we could collect it. Here's photos of it in the barn workshop.
We thought the base could be deconstructed so we could fit it in the motorhome, but it was a complete base and there was no way it would fit in, although I dare say we could have achieved it with a bit of effort.
At 6am on Sunday I raced home in Hay's Hyundai i10 (which we'd brought along to get around), swapped it for the Galaxy and raced back to the campsite, getting there at 8.45am..
The base still needs oiling to bring it to the same honey shade as the table top. I'm not going to screw the base into the slab, as it's heavy enough to remain in place by itself, plus it needs shims to balance out any wobbles. Leaving it placed under its own weight will make moving it a lot easier too.
At least it will be ready for Christmas - now to search for more suitable chairs than the ones we have.
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