Track of the Week - 16 September 2018
Regular readers (thank you) will have seen previous posts about clearing out my mum and dad's attic over the past several months. There has been stuff sent to museums, some to charity shops and jumble sales, while plenty has ended in the bin or at the tip.
There are also things that we will be hanging on to and one of those is the focus this week. We found a footstool made by my dad for his mum, most likely in the 1940s. While the wooden base was still in good nick the cushion was in a right state. The hessian holding the insides together had a hole in with the filling spilling out and there was not a lot left of the cover.
But there was just enough of the frayed edges to give us an idea of the pattern of the cloth that once covered it. I went with my mum to an upholstery shop this week and we have left them with the task of restoring it so it can be used again.
I was quite into The Danse Society when I was 17 or 18 but then as Homer Simpson said: "making teenagers depressed is like shooting fish in a barrel." I can't lay my hands on their records now so they must have been victim to a record collection slim-down during a house move - like a fair bit of Goth music I'd have accumulated at the time I expect.
These Frayed Edges was a b-side of the group's 1981 single There is No Shame in Death which reached 26 on the UK independent chart.
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