After a strange summer of jumping and wondering
if the parachute would open - we hit the ground running.
To celebrate, we did a bit of tidying up. Painted some walls
took things to the charity shop. Then we thought a smart new
desk would make us think we were organised.
We would still have piles of paper - but they'd be important
and not covered in jam.
So we found ourselves, on a mellow Saturday afternoon
approaching the Croydon Ikea....
" Ho! thou comest to the house of pain
Cried Minos when he saw me, the appliance
Of his dread powers suspending, think again. "
Have they changed the road layout - this roundabout
wasn't there last time. Can any one see a parking
space. No? Keep looking. What! it shuts in half an hour?
"How thou dost go, in whom is thy reliance;
Be not deceived by the wide open door!
Then said my guide - wherefore this loud defiance?"
Round and round we wandered - in ever increasing circles.
Passing unsustainable potted ferns ripped from the Amazon
basin. Averting our eyes from hideous printed fabrics and
polyester rugs. Feeling the static rise from a hundred
mass produced orange plastic camping forks. Ooh they'll
come in handy. Entering a zone of soft furnishing despair....
and then a bright and jolly halogen lit kitchenette hell.
Mum. I really really really want a fluffy cushion.
You'll get a hot dog if you're lucky!
It's closing now. I'll get the desk. See you at the checkout.
They haven't got the legs that go with the top bit.
Get it anyway.....
"And now the sounds of grief begin to fill
My ear: I'm come where cries of anguish smite
My shrinking sense, and lamentation shrill "
The coffee place shut five minutes ago.
But I REALLY wanted that fluffy cushion!
" When they are borne to the rim of the ruinous path
With cry and wail and shriek they are caught by the gust,
Railing and cursing the power of the Lord's wrath."
The shop is now closed, will customers please make their
way to the checkout.
"Hither and thither, up and down, outworn,
Hopeless of any rest - rest did I say?
Of the least minishing of their pangs forlorn"
Yeah, though you gain a toughened glass table top (with no
legs and as yet unpacked) - verrily you shall lose your soul.
......... And still not get a fluffy cushion.
( Apologies to Dante Alighieri )
MELONEY LEMON: SWEET AND SOUR.
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Instead of legless glass which shows jam more than most things you could have had our antique desk with drawers that stick and which would add an air of gravitas to offset fluffiness of cushions.As for IKea; you know we all love it really as it is the nearest we get to hunter gathering in this vale of tears.
Ohohohohohoh!
Your weird layout ie you have to scroll down to see posts - means that I'd assumed you hadn't blogged for ages. And then I find this wonderful gem.
You really shouldn't apologise to Dante - he'd be grateful I'm sure.
Did you ever see the Grumpy Old Men on IKEA?
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