Exactly Frazz Today I've been looking out of the window rather than at the pole thinking what the heck is going on there? I admit I'm a bit OTT with things like that. I went to 36's house yesterday and she showed me a few things she'd done in her bedroom. I realised she'd gone quiet and when I looked up she was starring at me, arms folded as I straightened up her duvet cover, popped the top of the duvet under the pillows after giving the pillows a good shake to fluff them up
Funny you should mention that. She's got a memory foam pillow that has it's own special keep cool white cover. I shoved that underneath the conventional pillow so the pillowcases on top matched. I know!
I would have done the same Nia Miss. I use 2 pillows,Sam only likes one but, in the interests of symmetry, we have 2 pillows either side, one of which Sam chucks onto a stool before getting into bed. Sometimes he sighs loudly when he does it, just to let me know that my madness hasn't gone unnoticed... The pillowcase that covers the unused one always gets washed at the same time as the others so that it gets the same 'wear'.
It's a great pity the right of free speech isn't based on the obligation to say something sensible.
I hadn't mentioned this a few weeks ago, but I bought a new desk for my laptop and forum sessions from a supposedly reputable outlet called Oakworld. Flat pack of course, but it was a bloody nightmare. Several parts were missing and the actual quality of the wood was diabolical. I emailed them and after dispute (I was a few days after the 30 day guarantee), they sent me replacement parts. I managed to cobble the thing together but it was a mess, the drawers were stiff to open and close and the whole thing wobbled. And then about a week later it literally collapsed into a pile of timber, it was to be honest quite funny and would have raised many a sit-com laugh. But obviously being £130 down, it was back to the emails demanding a refund. After several attempts threatening trading standards in the end, they finally coughed up and refunded what was owed.
Today I bought a desk from Argos, £80 and built in an hour. The easiest most well worded instructions I've ever seen, and most of the small parts (nails, screws etc) were provided with spares.
Lesson: buy your flat packs from Argos, not some arty local shysters who'll try and rip you off with their substandard tat., and save fifty quid to boot.
My entire study is furniture from Argos. Two waist level cupboards, a tall stationery cupboard, a bookcase and a computer desk. I can’t take the credit for building it all because my son helped. But I agree, Mr. M., that it’s sturdy, looks good and will last me out.