Friday 24th October - my new table

 I could pretend that ordering a little flat-pack table was solely so that BB, who likes assembling kits like booknooks

and complex wooden models

(this is a u-gears kit, when you turn the big wheel a secret compartment is revealed)

was an act of kindness, giving him a larger scale kit to 'play' with. I'm afraid it was nothing of the sort; I've been turning over ideas to help resolve the chaos occupying half the settee where I usually sit. BB made short work of putting the pieces together, and now I have a neat little table beside the settee with three shelves underneath;

I've still got a small stack of books and bits at the end of the settee but it's nothing like as big as it was.

Not only that, but lookee lookee;

The top swivels! I can bring my sewing basket / tea tray / whatever I like over to me, within reach.

I think this will be a solution...