When we moved here I saw a teak garden table, parasol and four chairs for sale second hand on our work 'marketplace' on the intranet for £60 and snapped them up - they were only a couple of years old and cost much more than that when they were new They're real teak so they don't need oiling, just brushing down with a stiff brush in the spring. They stay out all year and they've weathered to a lovely silvery old-wood colour. They're on the terrace and in the summer we eat out there in the evenings - even last summer we must've eaten out there at least a dozen times. That spot is in the shade by the evening, but it's lovely to sit there and watch the birds in the trees. We've also got a wooden bench at the end of the garden under the trees - that's a good spot for morning coffee at the weekend, and another wooden bench by the back door - that's where I sit and pod peas and broad beans top and tail goosegogs etc 
