New furniture for the patio

Until very recently we had a gas barbecue on our patio, but we have just disposed of it. We felt that since we had only used it about 5 or 6 times in the last 3 years – and not at all during 2013 – it was not worth hanging on to it. We generally prefer to cook indoors, even when we eat outside (which to be honest is a fairly rare event). So, since the barbecue has gone we have re-vitalised the patio by replacing the old plastic furniture with some new wooden items:

These are items from the “Acacia” range marketed by www.greenfingers.com.  We actually have four more chairs, but we have not put them out yet. The table is an expanding one. In the configuration shown here it is 1.5 metres long, but it expands to 2 metres if you need it to, so it will comfortably accomodate six diners.

We are planning to get a set of cushions for the chairs, because I imagine they would not be comfortable to sit in for any length of time without them.