Again it's a bit of a late blog but this one won't get too depressing.
I'm blogging quite late tonight as it's taken me all evening to build the
toy box we've just gotten. Officially our best buy from EBay so far at only
£0.99 but truly a pig to build.
Over the last two years or so since Gem and I bought the house we've been
getting pretty good at putting flat packs together. Even to the point where
I can even get wardrobe doors to hang strait, no mean feet I know. We've
even got a system. Gem sits and reads the instructions to me and once I've
finished getting excited about using power tools again I actually put the
bits together. (An electric screw driver and cordless drill do count as
power tools.)
As an aside note, I've not yet managed to drill any part of my anatomy but
some how I did end up in casualty after getting to close to a hand mixer a
few months ago. No, I don't get it either.
Anyway, back to the story.
The toy box arrived this morning before we went off to work and I got a
little concerned to tell you the truth. I was expecting the toy box to me
made up of wooden panels you can just screw together so I was expecting the
box to be at leased 70 CM by 45 CM, (the biggest side.
Well what turned up was a box about 70 CM high by about 15 CM square.
Well I opened it tonight to find about 40 strips of wood of different
lengths. Yes you guest it, you had to make the panels out of these strips.
Imagine a log cabin but in miniature.
The instructions weren't that clear and not all the screws were there and we've
still ended up with 4 screws that don't seem to go any ware! But after 3 and
a half hours we now have a toy box at the end of the cot. We just need to
paint it.
The moral of the story, if there's a toy box on EBay that costs £0.99 what
ever you do don't buy it!
It's all good fun, Honest.
Today I also got more proof that I should never have left university. I've
been working for 2 and half years now and this year decided that with a
little one on the way I should probably join the works pension scheme. Well
I've had my first statement through and there was a lovely little line that
said:
"Expected retirement date: December 2046."
That's just scary!
Write well off to get some sleep.
Take care all.
Nick.
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