Diana Was At Home During The Day,

and put together this video,

 of our day out in Brighton,

 and a bit of excitement, as my American made bankers chair produced by the Heywood-Wakefield Company in Massachusetts, arrived,

 the company has a bit of a history, founded in the year that John Quincy Adams is President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson, last survivor but one of those who signed the Declaration of Independence, is destined to die on

the Fourth of July, in that year the "Heywood Brothers" began to make chairs in a little shed adjacent to their father's farm-house where the City Hall stands to-day, yes if you are American you will by now have worked out the company was founded in 1826!

 and the chair itself has a bit of history too, it is a chair presented to Mr D Lewis - Conductor of the Dowlais Music Lovers, at the Eisteddfod, as the Eisteddfod normally takes place in August, I am guessing the chair is for the 1916 gathering but was not presented until 1917, or did it indeed take place in February? the presentation plaque above is on the backrest of the chair, 

under the chair the tilt mechanism with the adjuster for the back spring, the company initials cast into the spring tensioner, I wonder how the chair, presumably new, arrived in Wales to be presented to Mr. Lewis, did the company have a branch in Wales?

after watching a few films in the evening I walked past some of the nearby house to the station to pick up Diana and we walked home, then a chat and a nightcap and we were off to bed.