Hello to you all! Hope that this post finds you well and enjoying the sunshine!! I know - its been a while and when it finally popped its fiery presence through the clouds it was quite a shock, although for some it also removed any normal reasoning skills - I mean who would want to go to Bournemouth beech with 1.3 million other people ... Christ I have seen a tin of pilchards less crammed than the beach on Sunday!

Still even with all this loss of reasoning there at least seems to be some normality returning to life in general - oh yes back to the credit crunch - it seems that things are looking up!!
The news today was actually filled with people reporting a huge rise in confidence about the economy - I couldn't believe me ears, finally there is a positive line being taken by the media - I know that the sun has a positive effect on people but this was just to incredible to believe, I had to take a lie down...

I have to say though that there is a general feeling that we are through the worst of it, now I say that without trying to jinx any future improvements and so I have everything crossed and I do have a lucky rabbits foot to hand (where did I put that shamrock....), now we all know that there will be a rise in interest rates later this year and what of VAT, but here at A World of Furniture things are not too bad.

Oak furniture sales seem to be on a steady kilter with pine almost matching it pound for pound (the end of June saw our busiest week of the year!!) we are now seeing a bit of a slow down but this naturally occurs in the summer anyway, the kids are still off school and with the sun shining like it is we are lucky to do any trade at all, but all in all its been a darn good summer so far.

And so with baited breath we await the approach of the Autumn which we all hope will see steady trade and no nasty surprises by the Bank of England, we have most of our displays in place, Newland Oak, Vancouver Oak, Rustic Oak, Mobel Oak, Badger Pine, Chunky Pine, Tarka Pine, Old Mill Pine (.....with more arriving soon CPW Kristina Painted furniture, Sylvawood's Opus Painted Furniture all to be seen at Best Price Furniture ) and a dollop of confidence and a bucket of positive thinking we shall get through this rough patch and grow even stronger on the other side.

We are currently looking for a new location in Southampton - so watch this space!!