How does that work?

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Izzat Ibrahim ad-Douri has freckles and a ginger 'tash. Is that common in Iraq

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[lil_shepherd]

I don't know about M&S furniture, but might I suggest a look at auction houses. Brown furniture (which can, after all, be painted) is cheap at the moment. Admittedly, when we were looking at furniture we went for newish G-plan and the companies who make good pine furniture to order, but we seriously considered going all Edwardian because it's beautifully made and, generally, costs less than new badly made stuff.

We keep meaning to have a look at the auction house at the bottom of our road...

[flick]

I am planning on doing that of some parts of the house (eg, my dressing room, the spare rooms bits of downstairs), but The Plan means that we need a new bed for us ASAP after moving, and I don't want to take the risk of starting to look too late and not finding anything suitable for a month / starting to look too early and finding the ideal thing but not being able to store it.

Similarly, all our clothes storage in the flat is built in, so we're going to need at least some stuff immediately if we're not to live out of boxes.

(Plus, Mike's got a definite thing about having nicely closing soft-touch drawers, which I can understand, which is rather rare in period pieces.)

That said, there are a couple of antique-ish places near the new house, which I'll probably have a look at before I actually buy anything.

[drplokta]

Actually, Jonny is slightly larger than a horse, if we use vgrumpybastard as the standard.

[nwhyte]

He's 70, so the 'tache may be dyed...

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Point, but the freckles....?

[bellinghman]

Ahem, how do you expect to get a full sized long distance coach in?

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Hmph. Now you're just being clever....

[rjw1]

An Iranian I know is freckly with ginger hair.

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Huh, that is odd. I wonder how the genes got down there? Crusaders, maybe?

[del_c]

Same way the genes appeared in Europe, I think. Pretty much all genes have always been everywhere, and ginger genes are definitely everywhere there are Caucasian (meaning not just "white") people. It's just they're most commonly expressed in North West Europe, in up to 10% of people.

Crusaders would do it, but anything else would, too.