How Black is Brown

Spring has brought out the homemaker in Sue and about 3 weeks ago we went to Perigueux, some 2 hours drive away, to a large Leroy Merlin store (a national DIY chain). She'd seen some garden chairs on their web site but, when we got there, they had none in stock. So we ordered 6 and, as Sue mentioned yesterday, we went over to collect the chairs on Saturday. Unfortunately (in my opinion) whilst we were there she saw some tiles on promotion which she thought were fine for the en-suite facilities in Bedroom 3. Having reflected and measured during the course of Sunday we set off (again) early this morning.

Everything seemed to be going OK, especially as we took out a store card to get an extra 5% off, and the car was well laden! After 20 minutes on the journey home Sue was looking at the till receipts to work out how much we'd saved when she saw that the tiles were described as Moka. She wanted Black! They'd looked Black in the store but, in the sunlight they did have a brown hue. So.....we turned round and went back to the store to exchange them. We had a look at the range of tiles they had and we couldn't see any Black....or nothing labelled Black. Madam took one tile out to the sunlight and deemed herself happy with it, even though it is called Bronzo!!!! Needless to say I said nothing.

The next time you come out to see us, you can judge for yourselves how black is brown.