Give us our daily bread

For those who have been following our adventure for a while now, you may remember me buying this lovely old bread board from a gentleman at a local vide grenier we visited. It’s been in our atelier waiting patiently to be renovated. Brian had treated a bit of woodworm on it as soon as we bought it, and also glued a crack together, which he thought may get worse if he left it. But today it made it to the top of the list, and he started working on it with the intention of making it ready to go up on the wall today.

He soon had it rubbed down using some fine wire wool so as not to scratch it, but tough enough to remove a lot of the old varnish and oils. It was already looking better.

The crack that he’d glued when we first bought it, had fixed together well, so there was not much more to do to it.

The last job was to oil it to help preserve the wood and bring out its natural colour. He used a chopping board oil, which is food friendly. I know I will probably never use it for putting food on, but it’s a good oil to use as it dries well, and nourishes the wood.

It was also another outing for the laser, so that he can line up the centre with the centre of the shelf.

It was soon hung up and looking stunning. I love mixing together our little English memories and our French finds, I think they look good together.