Thankyou to the Walrus for pointing me in the right direction on my antiques quandry! It saved me a lot of time and hassle - and I also found this - possibly not interesting to anyone else, but the weirdest things amuse me and I act on whatever happens to pop into my mind at any given time - that is why life is never dull when i am around! LOL
Anyway:
An antique, according to the dictionary, is "a piece of furniture, tableware or the like, made at a much earlier period than the present." It is not, however, necessarily out-of-date or oldfashioned. A chair that was built soundly from good hardwood around 1820 and is comfortable to sit on is never out-of-date. A 7 1/2-inch-high octagonal teapot of blue Staffordshire is monstrous in comparison to contemporary streamlined pots, but it makes as good tea as it did more than a century ago.
How many years old must a chair, a plate, a trivet, a fan, or a clock be to warrant its being called an antique without anyone's arguing the point? Some people insist on a precise number of years, such as 80 or 100. The 80-year span is justified on the basis of two generations, each one covering 40 years. Yet a watch that is only 75 years old is likely to look old-fashioned, and so perhaps it also is an antique. Certainly anything that is 100 years old deserves the label.
An official definition of an antique is stated in the Tariff Act of 1930. According to Paragraph 1811 of that Act, antiques are "works of art (except rugs and carpets made after the year 1700), collections in illustration of the progress of the arts, works in bronze, marble, terra cotta, parian, pottery or porcelain, artistic antiquities and objects of ornamental character or educational value which shall have been produced prior to the year 1830."
All highly exciting stuff!!
Anyway - even mroe exciting was my radical new hair cut - it is soooo cool. I am going to post pics of it tomorrow - it shows how 3 months ago my hair was dark brown and came half way down my back - 1/12 months ago, it was cut into a 'pob' and then dyed burgundy red, and now it is approximately an inch long and a cross between cherry and ruby red. very drastic!
Anyway - nothing exciting happening today - I am going back to see the Police Later, I was in this morning giving them my statement, and we never got finished, so I am completing it this afternoon - I enjoy talking, but i think the poor lad taking my statement got a sore wrist after a while, as I can go on quite a bit! LOL
Best go home and take Elly out before I go see the boys in blue (or red caps in our case) otherwise he will pee everywhere in the house.
Laters 
