D is for..... Desk
The middle of the summer holidays is no time to be talking about homework, but come September, Mark will be in Year 2 and will be bringing some home. Egads - I don't even want to think about how we're going to fit homework into the mayhem that is the evenings round here. Much more pleasant to think about desks.
Oh e-bay, sometimes you are just too kind! I picked up this little lovely for a tenner. An old primary school, lift the lid, twin desk. Excuse me while I take a moment to wallow in nostalgia, remembering many an hour sat behind something similar. I loved school - what a girlie swot!
Well, I've sanded and waxed and polished and the desk is now up in Mark's bedroom. I need to make a covered foam pad for the chair, to raise him up a little higher, but he's loving it. Perhaps it's because he's yet to realize that it's really for doing homework. Drawing is so much more fun.
Oh e-bay, sometimes you are just too kind! I picked up this little lovely for a tenner. An old primary school, lift the lid, twin desk. Excuse me while I take a moment to wallow in nostalgia, remembering many an hour sat behind something similar. I loved school - what a girlie swot!
Well, I've sanded and waxed and polished and the desk is now up in Mark's bedroom. I need to make a covered foam pad for the chair, to raise him up a little higher, but he's loving it. Perhaps it's because he's yet to realize that it's really for doing homework. Drawing is so much more fun.
Comments
Cool for Mark!
Where you actually looking for a desk on ebay, or just browsing?
What an artist your son is!
I'm mighty impressed :)
And I really think I can hear the sirens in that picture of Mark's. Love it.
The desk is great, especially with the super renovation you've done.
But I'm afraid it's totally outshone by Mark's excellent drawings!
Those desks where great - with lid lifted up you could communicate in naughty whispers with your friends and the boy that you fancied. Much cheaper than a sneaky text message.
Mark is whizz at drawing. His illustrations would make some fab appliqués.
perhaps this is something that I did as a child....only in nailpolish.