Sunday, June 15, 2003

Been too busy to blog. Thursday night saw the spectacular leaving do and presentation of the big (red) yin from the YIK. Seeing him speechless was perhaps the highlight of the night. After the kids had gone the wine came out and we even had to go for more. Pissed as a fart I was, claims thewife. Got home chatted for about three minutes about the space between the space between. It may well have been deep or profound but a day later I have no idea whatsoever I was on about.

Friday, day off and off to IKEA for some stuff for the bedroom. We are gonna decorate. We have been planning this for months. Possibly even a year. There are three yellow squares of paint that thewife got samples of some time ago, and she tried them on one of the walls. They range from a mustardy colour to canary. Some weeks later thewife had decided on an entirely new approach which consists of a spectrum of colours on the cerise, blue magenta sort of spectrum. I offer up a huge sort of Mondrian of the same colours a spectacular backdrop behind the bed. thewife seems to accept this idea, but I am never sure really. Anyways a month or few later, the wife has bought a new duvet cover and it seems the room is going to be decorated around the colours in this. I ask if this is wise and am sort of looked at. The duvet is raspberryish, with some mauve and ochre. It is quite pretty really I suppose and the colours are nice. So down to Homebase, where a fabby new colour range from Dulux called Indian Summer seems to have all the colours imaginable that would go with the duvet. So that's it sorted Goan Sunrise and a reddish hue.

Except we go into B & Q next to IKEA and have a look there and discover similar colours that, because they are "special" they are all on the expensive side, so we have a look at wallpaper, which you can get pretty much self colored and we wouldn't have to paint, but we don't have the duvet with us and thewife wants to see the colours next to the duvet. Having ripped off a strand of wallpaper from a few sheets, apparently you are allowed to do this to the unwrapped ones, we compare them. It looks like we are settling for a sort of reddish colour and a sort of yellowish colour, quite pale and I suddenly realise that its almost the same colours as the living room! thewife sort of agrees but says that the living room really works. Much as I agree, I point out that I don't really want every room in the house the same colour.

IKEA is such a weird place. You think that everything is really quite cheap, but by the time to get to the checkout, you have amassed a small fortune's worth of cheap stuff. thewife thinks seventy quid is pretty good though for getting curtain stuff, rails and lighting with shades for the bedroom.

Saturday, mail arrives from DVLA. They have returned my cheque (see earlier rant/tirade), Brian Donohoe my MP has helped get a result. Yowzah Yowzah Yowzah. My first major complaint result.

Installed the new lights in the bedroom. Two hanging lamps, one each side of the bed, fitted with a dimmer switch. I'm mightily impressed cos they work and I wired them meself. Only problem is with the IKEA shade which managed to rip apart during the installation process. Oops, that and thewife says that the lamps are hanging at different lengths, pah. Found a wasp's nest in the loft in the process though. Apparently its wisest to get environmental health people in to deal with it though. There goes my � 25 saving from the DVLA.. Never mind.

Sunday I cut the grass in the back garden. Or I should really say moss. I have to get rid of this stuff.
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