Tried to shift it, couldn't even lift it

We have finally got round to starting to assemble the new wardrobes that we bought for the 3rd bedroom. I decorated the room & we laid new carpet last summer. We had an old wardrobe & chest of drawers in there that we bought over 27 years ago when we first got married. They were cheap flatpack but were still ok. In fact, at the moment we’ve kept the chest of drawers and have donated the wardrobe to a local recycling charity. We had seen the wardrobes we wanted at B&Q but they were very expensive, so we waited knowing they would be on offer at some point. Sure enough between Christmas & New Year there was 40% off them, so we bought the, along with a couple of bookcases for the same room.

We thought we were going to have a lot of trouble with the wardrobes (you know what flat pack can be like), but we’ve been pleasantly surprised. Once we’d sorted out what all the bits were we got the carcases together really quickly.

This is the first one, awaiting it’s doors (that will come once we’ve got everything else together & the wardbrobes in place.



And here are the doors & the sides of the second one waiting to be unwrapped.



Max tries to help Chris put the second wardrobe together…



While Jez looks on…



Tomorrow we have to put together an internal drawer unit for one of the wardrobes. After that we’ll try and fix the doors.

Friday is normally cleaning day for me, but as the upstairs is covered in bits of packaging & stuff from the room at the moment, I limited myself to downstairs today until we’ve got stuff back together.

In the news Chris and I were both horrified to see that Ashley Cole had only been given a 4 month ban for driving at 104mph in a 50mph limit in South London. How disgraceful is that? Does he think that just because he is a famous footballer the law doesn’t apply to him. Well obviously he does.

I don’t think there’s much else to say today. Max’s leg continues to get better & is almost completely healed. As you could see in the photo above, though, he’s still wearing his buster collar as he will insist on licking it. And Max can’t content himself with one or two licks. No, he has to get obsessive about it and will just go on and on. Talking of the Super Pooper, that bone yesterday took it’s toll today: 4 poos before 10.30am and another 2 this afternoon! As for Jez, we still don’t like the look of that thing on her side. I think she’s going to end up at the vet next week at this rate.

Finally, I can’t really go without commenting on the iPad, which as everyone has said, sounds like a feminine hygiene product. It looks like a large iPod touch to me. I can’t see that it will replace a laptop – who would want to type a lot on it? But, unlike Chris, I can see that it will have its uses. IF you had the money, it would be a great coffee table item, for playing games & browsing the internet etc. And they are talking about newspapers, magazines & books on it. Now I like reading The Guardian on my iPhone, so I can get the newspaper/magazine bit. But books are another matter. I thought I’d try Kindle on my iPhone, but was actually more interested in the Sony eReader. Until I realised that you are paying full price for a book which you can’t then share with anyone else. The books I buy tend to get passed round before returning to me, so they work out quite cheap. But you can’t do that with these eBooks. I was saying to Chris this morning that it would make more sense if you could rent them cheaply (and go for volume sales like the iPhone apps). People might be much more interested in them. As for who would want one, other than people who must have the latest gadget, well it would be useful for someone like my Dad. He is nearly 83 and keeps going on about a PC so that he can access the internet. You may not have noticed, but there are so many things nowadays you can’t do or get if you haven’t got internet access. But he’d never cope with a PC. He loves my iPhone though, and I think would get on well with this iPad thing. But it is way too pricey. You’d really want the G3 version, and that comes in at $699, plus the cost of a separate G3 contract. Just cos Steve Jobs is made of money doesn’t mean everyone else is.

Chris thinks the iPad will fail. I think it will succeed, but only because people have more money than sense. Mind you, I thought that about the iPhone, and I love mine, so you never can tell. Without apps though, I’d never have bothered.

Oh, and if you are wondering where the title lyric comes from (if you are Keith Bell you will know), its from Right Said Fred by Bernard Cribbins. If you don’t know it here is a link to a vintage 1960s animated cartoon of it (which I actually recall!). You Tube Link