I went to Ikea and only spent £25!
Well I’m amazed. I went to Ikea and I only spent £25. I also bought only the items I wanted to get. Go me. Still I wouldn’t have gone to Ikea if they’d been able to include the hanging rails in the order for the wardrobe. How stupid is that? You buy a wardrobe online but you can’t buy the hanging rails with it? Perhaps they should have an intelligent ordering system, whereby you order something like a wardrobe, and it suggests the parts you would want to have with it, pre-selected to the correct size. Meh… It’s frustrating when you know you could do better.
Anyway, I bought an extension pack for the shelves in the pantry. So now my pantry looks pretty darn good. I’ve got all the food on a double wide metal shelving unit inside the door, all the cooking utensils, dog bowls, storage items etc on the three units that are smaller in size. My pantry now rocks. Also as a result the kitchen looks spotless. Later on I’ll be working a similar kind of magic with the spare room, as the wardrobes and spare bed turn up on Wednesday. So all in all, the house is looking more and more tidy. A feat that’s doubly impressive because the dog weaves a path of destruction wherever she goes.
The fact that it took me 2 hours to un-pack all the shopping as a result of putting the extra shelves up shall be considered a moot point. Still it was worth it. I have a place for everything now, and I won’t kill my back every time I want a can of beans off the shelves.
More on her second, even louder belch at the dog training school later. Also possibly a post about Goodwood Festival of Speed… perhaps a survivors guide to attending, and a note on how the catering was about a thousand times better than in previous years!
