Lockdown, Day #194
This was a busy day; we did some shopping in IKEA, trying to find furniture and light fittings, to help me with a bit of a do-over in my flat, all spurred from the fact that my lighting in my lounge seems to be faulty, meaning that I have had to remove all the bulbs (which weren't turning off, forcing me to switch all my lights off at the fuse box).
It wasn't especially fun; to get into the shop, we had to queue for one and a half hours (I wished I had bought a book with me) and having to go around for a considerable time with a mask on is never fun at all.
I got some new flat-pack furniture, which we're going to assemble next weekend, and we decided to get the lighting through the John Lewis website, because they seem to offer better.
As usual, it wasn't much fun being around other people, so I was glad to get out of there, but we took longer than any of us had hoped for.
We didn't get much time to rest because we had to go out for a family birthday meal; the pub was almost deserted when we arrived, it was weird on a Saturday night. More people did arrive, including some noisy dogs; some of my party did get up to pat someone else's dog at one point - it seemed very cute.
So yeah, I didn't get much of the day to myself in the end, and I have plans for tomorrow. The family meal was a last minute thing, though, and it's one of those weekends when I've had to be a bit spontaneous. It was good to see some family members who I'd not seen before.
It wasn't especially fun; to get into the shop, we had to queue for one and a half hours (I wished I had bought a book with me) and having to go around for a considerable time with a mask on is never fun at all.
I got some new flat-pack furniture, which we're going to assemble next weekend, and we decided to get the lighting through the John Lewis website, because they seem to offer better.
As usual, it wasn't much fun being around other people, so I was glad to get out of there, but we took longer than any of us had hoped for.
We didn't get much time to rest because we had to go out for a family birthday meal; the pub was almost deserted when we arrived, it was weird on a Saturday night. More people did arrive, including some noisy dogs; some of my party did get up to pat someone else's dog at one point - it seemed very cute.
So yeah, I didn't get much of the day to myself in the end, and I have plans for tomorrow. The family meal was a last minute thing, though, and it's one of those weekends when I've had to be a bit spontaneous. It was good to see some family members who I'd not seen before.