I have just spent an exhausting weekend screwing ... IKEA furniture. The job was easy enough; it's just that there was so much of it to do. Part of the problem was the fact that I bought so many doors to front the bookshelves. They involved some heavy screwing, especially of the hinges and then the adjustment screws.
It's just as well I had this job to do, mainly indoors, because the weather was awful. A fierce low pressure system, with the lowest central pressure I've ever measured on my barometer, was parked off the coast and created gale force winds that shredded leaves and branches off our trees. It was also 'freezing' cold here at about 13 degrees C compared with our normal temperatures around 23. These conditions were mild compared with those down south. In the Snowy mountains it ... snowed ... the heaviest falls of the year including winter and further south there were floods. Last week parts of Queensland had two successive storms with the power of a hurricane and something like 200 to 250 mm of rain. We had a lot of rain, too, but only about 75 mm (3 inches).
AS
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I meant to write earlier to say that you looked great in the t shirts!
Turning now to Ikea, I know the problem of buying and assembling their furniture!
Their stores always seem far from where you live; from Poole the nearest is equidistant from us i.e. either London or Bristol though a new one is in the course of construction at Southampton.
We bought two "Billy" bookcases about 3 years ago and they are really solid, the shelves do not bend under the weight of books and they were easy to build and most of all CHEAP.
Long live Ikea!
Suddenly the 'credit crunch has hit our shops and discounts of up to 20% are commonplace.
Our government policy of spend, spend and spend does seem somewhat illogical as our children are going to have a horrific bill to pick up!
The QE2 safely reached her final resting place. People complained that she was not preserved in England but the reality was that she was too big for almost anywhere but Southampton, too expensive to keep going and insufficient monied interest (the clarion calls all seemed to come from those with no money). At least the Arabs can keep her going.
On a brighter note, our weather does not suffer the extremes that you have recently experienced.
Best wishes from Richard Snow.
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