{"id":15419,"date":"2022-02-26T21:40:15","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T20:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=15419"},"modified":"2022-03-03T21:53:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T20:53:27","slug":"daily_2588_-_inaugural_dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2022\/02\/26\/daily_2588_-_inaugural_dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2588 &#8211; inaugural dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2588_kitchen_table.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nWe bought a new kitchen table. Here it is, set for an inaugural dinner, with a bonus (malus) cat photobombing it.<\/p>\n<p>The old one Eric and I bought at Habitat in London just after moving there, so that would have been in 2001. Getting twenty years of use from a table isn&#8217;t bad.<\/p>\n<p>But it really was on its last legs now. The veneer strips on the edges were falling off, the varnish on the top was completely worn through in places. Most importantly, it was wobbly and squeaky as hell because all the joins were loose, no matter how much we tightened the screws. We&#8217;ve had way too many incidents with drinks sloshing over from glasses when someone accidentally pushes against the table. And using it for kneading dough or energetic whisking or even cutting crusty bread has been quite frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>We chose the new table with those learnings fresh in mind. No veneer, and no varnished finish. Solid oak throughout, with an oiled finish that we can just sand down again and reapply oil to when needed. And the thickest, most solid construction we could find! I hope this one will last us more than two decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We bought a new kitchen table. Here it is, set for an inaugural dinner, with a bonus (malus) cat photobombing it. The old one Eric and I bought at Habitat in London just after moving there, so that would have been in 2001. Getting twenty years of use from a table isn&#8217;t bad. But it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,745,22,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-food_and_cooking","category-house_and_garden","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15421,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15419\/revisions\/15421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}