Kate Ford and I finally fled London and drove to the country to the Thames Valley Antique Dealers Association in Oxfordshire. It’s an area with so many antique shops it would take you a year to see them all. And it is where the London big boys often go to pick up good stuff and double the price to sell in London … It isn’t so much the furniture that is so much fun and makes you feel so good as it is the people you will meet at these shops and at the dealers association fair. This is an endangered species …

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