I will leave you with this little village video. I’m out for the day
I went for a duvet set and came back with ( are you ready?)
2 kitchen chairs,
A selection of chopsticks,
A tablecloth and napkins
A vase
A tea pot,
Sushi knives,
Plates,
Kitchen hooks in the shape of dogs’ tails
A rainbow doormat
And a toy dinosaur
I had no idea that your court case was coming up today. Make sure your tie is straight and that you smile at the jury.
ReplyDeleteSame as Alice on the Archers
DeleteThat's one hairy dude. Lovely views of rolling farmland and hill tops.
ReplyDeleteI should never take the village and it’s environs for granted
DeleteI can see why you love your village and its environs. Serenity. Bliss. xx
ReplyDeleteFunny I used the word environs before reading your comment HH
DeleteOne very pretty part of the world.
ReplyDeleteAn area of outstanding natural beauty
DeleteThat’s what the road sign says to the entrance to trelawnyd
A nice day to just amble along!
ReplyDeleteI’m knackered , IKEA does that to a girl
DeleteThe definition of bucolic.
ReplyDeleteThe view down the valley is bloody lovely
DeleteLovely countryside, John.
ReplyDeleteAnd now the rain has started, just I as I sitbdown x
DeleteVillage? A few seconds of hills and a horse!
ReplyDeletePause your video
DeleteSpammed again!
ReplyDeleteThe above was my reply YP
DeleteSweet little horse.
ReplyDeleteIt seems that the IKEA magic worked its spell on you!
Everyone loves an IKEA visit
DeleteBut no duvet set? 😉
ReplyDeleteNo, out of stock
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DeleteHa! You're the only person I know who impulse-buys furniture! I totally get the dinosaur, though.
ReplyDeleteI trust my inner gay
DeleteI impulse buy furniture!
DeleteJust like the Generation Game, even down to the cuddly toy! xx
ReplyDeletelol oh those lovely silly old daysc
DeleteWhat a haul John, don’t you just love IKEA for interesting stuff. Did you get a duvet set? Jan in Castle Gresley
ReplyDeleteIt was out of stock jan
DeleteGreat pictures and a great haul from IKEA!
ReplyDeleteHope your day out is enjoyable.
Hugs!
We had a lovely day thanks chuck
DeleteYou don't know what you need, until you see it at IKEA.
ReplyDeleteAnd we are using the word “ need “ loosely
DeleteOne of my favorite places to wander around, and I a visit is needed, I am out of something.
DeleteThe dinosaur is useful
ReplyDeleteLee
I think so too lee
DeleteYep, that's how IKEA gets you! I went to IKEA last week and had the very same reaction. Went for chopping boards, but came back with anything but (but including the duvet set you didn't get! Sorry, mate; do you want me to post it to you?)
ReplyDeleteWas it green with brown reverse?
DeleteOh, no. The blue black splodgy flower one, price reduced. That was a narrow escape, otherwise I would have had to strip the bed for you. (Create your own puns and double entendre....)
DeleteAnd not a single thing that you actually needed. Think how much food that amount of money would buy for a foodbank or provide something for someone who does NEED it. You're a spendthrift. Have you always been like that or does it fill a gap since your marriage breakdown?
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DeleteAnd how much do you do anon? Let’s hear it here. what do you do for the greater good? Do you work along people who are dying, day in day out? Do you perhaps add to your own community by clearing land, helping with the green groups or running the local flower show?
Have you worked for Samaritan suicide watch or taken a neighbour to hospital regularly when needed
Or have you bought some food for a local food bank ? On no dear anon, do you know what it is that you do?
You lurk around the internet, probably in a one room friendless apartment, in your gray underwear, bursting with bile and you pull down others who you are envious of.
That’s what YOU do
Lee
Well said, Lee.
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DeleteI know a bitch when I see one
Considering John's love of making sushi you don't know he didn't NEED the sushi knives or the CHOPSTICKS now do you? So there is that!
DeleteWell everyone should have a Lee in their corner….
DeleteSo what did I need. ?
You are right , the knives and chopsticks were needed and the vase as I’ve just broken my medium one. The napkins were 50 p and the tablecloth was half price .
The hooks I didn’t need, the teapot was frivolous too
But the dinosaur was bloody essential
The chairs were an indulgence but I only have one kitchen chair at the moment
Think what good you could have done with your time in reading this blog and “crafting” your response.
Delete“ You lurk around the internet, probably in a one room friendless apartment, in your gray underwear, bursting with bile ”
DeleteA cracking line
Thank you Squire
DeleteLee
Well said, Lee! John, there is NO reason for you to explain yourself to that troll.
DeleteLee, you are a genius! And you said the best thing for all of us. As for me, I have also splurged at IKEA. But have done my three charity donations this week and out now to do my village litter picking round. So wonder what that Anonymous is doing apart from manufacturing and spewing bile? That must make a fun weekend!
DeleteAnon sounds like they would be fun at a party. Wonderful response Lee. I guess anon would rather you sent money rather than actually doing the work.
Delete[waves a royal wave] you are welcome my ladies
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DeleteOh just get over yourself NSP
DeleteI need to see the kitchen chairs. Ikea is wonderful, I wish we had one closer. Or maybe I don't....nope, definitely do!
ReplyDeletececi
Plain clean white chairs , I’ve only managed to make one up as yet
DeleteWe are an hour and half away from the nearest IKEA. in the past we have used their delivery service which has a very strange cost (seems to vary a lot) but now, be still my beating heart, we can get it delivered to our nearest Tesco for a mere fiver.
ReplyDeleteI rather fancy some of those plates…do I need any more bloody plates!
The plates were an inspired choice old fashioned but great quality
DeleteThe dinosaur needs a name now 😊 Kath x
ReplyDeleteNames on a postcard
DeleteGotta be Kevin
DeleteOr Lee?
DeleteIke for the name.
DeleteLove the idea of Ike for a dinosaur name. John be careful with mixed chopsticks as I believe it is considered to set out unmatched pairs on the table.
DeleteLee? Don't you think naming it after a reader will be favouritism?
DeleteHilarious, just like the IKEA ad on IG: "I went to Ikea for the meatballs--ok, I spent $500.oo, but the meatballs were great." Such a fun outing, great finds.
ReplyDeleteOh we bought frozen meatballs too
DeleteFinally made it to Great Orme today. Didn’t see any goats but lots of sheep. £5.50 well spent for the toll road. Catriona
ReplyDeleteThe goats are usually on the west shore side of the Orme above the hospice
DeleteAnd no duvet set! That’s what happens to me at IKEA.
ReplyDeleteAh, serendipity.
ReplyDeleteThe last time I went to IKEA was the last time I will ever go to IKEA. I couldn’t find my way out, it was like a nightmare, passing the same areas again and again, and I started to hurry in a panic until I had angina….
ReplyDeleteThe last time we went there, we found a bathroom vanity and a medicine cabinet. I got a bamboo plant and some spatulas. And I got lost. I got really, really lost. And I got meatballs.
ReplyDeleteTnge Rover put a 2 chairs & some massive potted plants in and screaming to the children Tristan & Cordelia to f**** ng help her…worth the trip just for that..
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The best thing about IKEA was sitting outside on the Ballards watching a couple trying to load a flat pack wardrobe and some filing cabinets into a mini, or the posh mum in the Range Rover loading 2 chairs and some massive potted plants screaming at the children Tristan & Cordelia to f****ng help her
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Love that debbie x
DeleteIt's nice that you got 2 more kitchen chairs,you can have seating for company, I might call the dinosaur Barry (barosaurus lectus
ReplyDeletewas a real dinosaur)
Mary
I always used to buy Sill at Ikea (sweet/sour Herring), but I can now find it at Waitrose so I don't bother.
ReplyDeleteThat's a great random impulse purchase list and just what you needed as a feelgood boost I bet. I love going on a little "raid" like that but usually in the local second hand emporium which has lots of fun things. Hope you get the duvet set in the end.
ReplyDeleteI love your eclectic hoard.
ReplyDeleteThe one item shopping list and actual haul made me laugh. (Diva Dinosaur).
ReplyDeleteMy daughter has just completed on her first house cottage - a little place outside Cardiff to create a nest whilst she completes her Phd - and bought with the money her darling Daddy left her . She dragged me to IKEA in Bristol on Wednesday. For hours . I am still recovering.
ReplyDeleteSiobhan x
Siobhan, being a widow of just over a year myself, I have actually dropped former friends and acquired some new ones. Has made it easier for me.
DeleteI still cry every day for my husband and most likely will for the rest of my life.
DeleteI understand and share your IKEA affliction.
ReplyDeleteWill Jay
You should follow Mr Carrington on You Tube … and Lone Fox .. both home decorating channels. 😊
ReplyDeleteI always say IKEA is full of things you never realised you NEEDED….!
ReplyDeleteSometimes purchases just HAVE to be made. I love your little eclectic haul. :-)
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