… features part of the new chez moi complete with bed settee and occasional table (I’m still wondering what it is the rest of the time when it’s not a table).
So after my lie-in (well, it was in fact earlier than usual when I woke up) I assembled the table. That was exciting, I can tell you. It looks quite nice and trendy – totally out of place with me, and assembling it was, well, something of a challenge.
Then it was the bed-settee’s turn. And I’m disappointed with this, given the amount of money I paid. Fair enough, it’s better than the one I have back in Belgium, but it cost 3 times the price so it ought to be. But it’s not all that strong. If I ever get Percy Penguin in here when she’s got a head full of steam, it won’t last five minutes. But neither would I, so I don’t suppose it makes any difference. But I’m keen to see how I feel tomorrow morning after a good sleep on a decent mattress.
But talking of Percy Penguin, I am reminded of the time that she and I went on a skiing holiday back in 1993 (you could say that our relationship went downhill after that). I went to the doctor’s before we went, to see if he could do anything for me.
“What you really need to do is to pray to God, Mr Hall” he said
“Why’s that?” I asked.
“I’m a doctor” he replied. “My job is to heal the sick. It’s his job to raise the dead“.
He did give me some viagra, though, which was kind of him. But I clearly didn’t swallow it quickly enough. I had a stiff neck for the whole week.
And I had a friend who died of an overdose of viagra. It took two weeks for the smile to fade from his face, and four weeks before they could put the lid on the coffin.
I have the gas heater up here now – something of a disappointment as I was hoping for the woodburning stove to work – I’ll look again at this in the near future and follow Krys’ idea from the other day which I think is a likely solution. Struggling up with the heater and the gas bottle was something. later on this evening, struggling up here with a full gas bottle becuase the one that I had just taken up had run out – that was something else.
I’ve reassembled the desk as well and I’ve started to move my other stuff up. I’ll be finishing that off tomorrow. And I’ve noticed that while it’s colder in here than in my little room downstairs, it’s not as uncomfortable by any means. The damp in there was clearly affecting me and you should see how it’s affected some of the stuff that was leaning against the wall.
And as for the quiz last night, raise your hands if you DIDN’t guess “music” or “the hi-fi”. That was as expected the first thing that came up here from downstairs.
