A warm thank you to all the people who came to the Giggy & Bab stand at the recent Country Living Spring Fair at Alexandra Palace in north London, your charm and enthusiasm made it a pleasure.

Country Living Spring Fair, Camilleri Paris Mode, Women’s Room blog, Lauren Laverne… it’s all go here at Stool Central.

I am thrilled to appear in my venerable local newspaper, the Ham & High, in their regular Q&A slot, which features a local resident talking about what they love about their neck of the woods.

Customers in January are embracing winter, largely shunning brighter stools in favour of the black Hornsey, with its frame the colour of a raven’s wing and its feet as white as snow.

The wonder of plywood is celebrated in a fascinating (free) exhibition, Plywood: Material of the Modern World, which runs at the V&A in London till 12 November 2017.