Day 517

We watched the incredibly impressive Olympics opening ceremony last night which didn't finish until 1am. So it was only fitting that Penny, who slept right though it, would decide to wake up at 4am. Melissa and I took it in turns to get her back to sleep, but I won the challenge at about 5:15am. Back to bed, then, and Penny re-awoke at 8:30am. Nice.

I took her downstairs to watch TV while Melissa got some more z's and then, when Penny's relentless crawling started to annoy me, I dumped her in with Melissa.

Breakfast done we dropped Penny with Melissa's mum and then went to the tip and on to Ikea for a new couch and some other, smaller items.

We picked the couch up from the depot place round the corner from Ikea. I'd anticipated it being pretty big and so removed the seats from the car and freed up as much space as humanly possible. Imagine my surprise  when the man wheeled out 4 fucking massive boxes.

It took us like, 45 minutes of faffing, wiggling, jiggling, twisting, turning and brute force but by the time we'd finished, this was the view out my back window :

Safety first, as you can see.

We got home in one piece, rearranged some furniture and then unloaded the car much to the amusement of the neighbours then Melissa went to get Penny while I got to work on building the couch.

I'm fucked. The sweat was pouring off me like there was no tomorrow. Fortunately Melissa was home soon to tell me what I was doing wrong and offer me words of encouragement. Or, just really, really annoy me. It was hard to tell.

Now, at 9pm we've finally finished what we set out to do. And I'd like to reiterate how absolutely knackered I am.

I think, this evening, in a moment, I'm going to have a beer and watch some TV and then perhaps read some Batman.

Sunday tomorrow. A day of rest? Yeah, right.

See you then!