In anticipation of my forthcoming house move, I bought an armchair today, which was going for a song on FB marketplace. I arranged to pick it from the seller’s place of work at the auction mart in Hexham. This is the local livestock market but I know they do other stuff on the site too so I assumed I’d be picking it up from an office or a warehouse or some such. Imagine my surprise when I turned up and he open up a gate and ushered me into the cattle pens and in front of an audience of curious cows, I exchanged a handful of fivers for a lightly used Parker Knoll wingback chair.