Georgian Wingbacks

As we were working on Rachel and Keir's wingback chairs, a couple of Norwegian stamps dropped out from one of the arms.

One possible source of the intriguing find was Keir's Uncle who worked as a meteorologist at Edinburgh University. Due to a combination of WWII and his family's circumstances, they moved back to his wife's childhood home in Edinburgh. The University converted their attic into an observatory and the local council used special light bulbs to minimise the light pollution impacting his observations. One area of study was nocturnal clouds. Working with two other scientists, one in Norway and one in Iceland, they took simultaneous location readings of the same clouds and by triangulating their results, could work out their heights and identify that they sit high in the atmosphere; explaining why they can glow all night in summer by catching sunlight not visible at lower altitudes.

We framed the stamps with a piece of the wool used on the chairs as a house warming present for Rachel and Keir. Even with the appropriate caveats, it'll always be a great yarn after a few drams from within the 'wings'!