The name came about in one of those happy accidents after my partner, in a state of total infuriated exasperation, declared that I was ‘like a social work department for things ’. So true.
Shortly after this a mate who was moving, the artist Peter Maynard, formerly of Nunhead, was attempting to understand why I was willing to take all his old things when everyone else he’d shown it to had said no, can’t be bothered. But once I had explained my modus operandi, Peter simply said: “So you foster furniture, take it into care, until it finds a new permanent good home.”
Shortly after this a mate who was moving, the artist Peter Maynard, formerly of Nunhead, was attempting to understand why I was willing to take all his old things when everyone else he’d shown it to had said no, can’t be bothered. But once I had explained my modus operandi, Peter simply said: “So you foster furniture, take it into care, until it finds a new permanent good home.”