Furnishings

Katie and I ventured to Lakeside, Thurrock (the world’s second biggest shopping centre, I think) to locate and take a look around every home owners worst nightmare: IKEA.

Leaving shortly after 6pm from home, we travelled to the local Matalan where we purchased a chocolate brown mirror, various kitchen equipment and even bought an HD Ready Freeview LCD TV with a built in DVD player.

Driving up the A127 on our way to Lakeside, I was pursued by a marked Police car that looked like it was on manoeuvres, blasting past me, stopping abruptly on the side of the road and then once I had overtaken it’s current position it would flash past within seconds.

Having not been to this IKEA before, we stumbled across a lot of places that would serve our house furnishing needs, one such shop was ASDA Living. Here, we bought lots of kitchen equipment, making sure to keep a continual theme colour wise and could not believe it that fifteen items would total less than forty pounds (you can see why people buy so much stuff they don’t need for their homes).

We finally found IKEA and we set about looking for the seat covers we had planned to buy. Walking through the store, following the arrows on the floor, we grabbed a trolley. Knowing that our seat covers were at the very end of the store, we added some really nifty pint and wine glasses, awesome matching table and floor lamps, by the time we were finished, we had added £150 more than budgeted for the two seat covers!

It was fun trying to fit them into the car, it was a feat of engineering! Items were moved and re-moved, put into foot wells and put on laps. We got it all in but I must say….if the house doesn’t look spiffing after this last shopping spree, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle!