Sunday, April 09, 2006
How about that eBay, huh?
Well, I was tooling around on eBay last week and noticed that there was an auction for some baby furniture that was about to finish. On a whim, I made a bid and incredibly, I won it! Not only that, the furniture was Boori. (Incidently if you visit that site with an ancient machine that does not have the appropriate version of flash, you are urged to "upgdare" your Flash Player). Whatever.
I know next to nothing about baby furniture and was purely motivated by the prospect of getting all the nursery kitted out in one fell swoop. I am told however, that Boori baby furniture is reasonably sought after by those in the know. I was told this by someone in the know - Lib*.
I made contact with the seller (a lovely lady named Diana) and I arranged to pick the furniture up today. It was this weekend that my computer decided absent itself as to whether it was docked or not and refused to power up at home. Apart from having to head back to the office to get Diana's details and with Mikey's misgivings about EVER getting to Sydney in anything like enough time, the journey was good fun and Mikey's company was awesome as usual.
Of course, I had no idea about the size of the stuff and frankly the 6x4 we hauled up there was not going to cut it. We ended throwing as much as we could in the stationwagon, but even so, this did not leave much room over in the tray.
It did, however, leave a look on Mikey's face which roughly translated to "Fleur's gonna kill me if I can't fit the stuff from Ikea amongst this lot".
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We had a brief chat with Diana - it was clear to me that she was quite sentimental about the furniture after having raised three of her own children with it - and then we were on our way.
When we got to Ikea - rather circuitously and I'd rather not talk about that - we dismantled as much as we could and it turned out everything was going to fit just fine.
After getting all the stuff home, I re-assembled it all. I looked in awe at what was in front of me. This furniture is beautiful.
More importantly, its presence is starting to reinforce the reality of my life. We are making space for someone new - brand new. In around five months, I am going to be a father.
If you're reading this Diana, it looks great and it will be with us for a while, I'm sure.
I know next to nothing about baby furniture and was purely motivated by the prospect of getting all the nursery kitted out in one fell swoop. I am told however, that Boori baby furniture is reasonably sought after by those in the know. I was told this by someone in the know - Lib*.
I made contact with the seller (a lovely lady named Diana) and I arranged to pick the furniture up today. It was this weekend that my computer decided absent itself as to whether it was docked or not and refused to power up at home. Apart from having to head back to the office to get Diana's details and with Mikey's misgivings about EVER getting to Sydney in anything like enough time, the journey was good fun and Mikey's company was awesome as usual.
Of course, I had no idea about the size of the stuff and frankly the 6x4 we hauled up there was not going to cut it. We ended throwing as much as we could in the stationwagon, but even so, this did not leave much room over in the tray.
It did, however, leave a look on Mikey's face which roughly translated to "Fleur's gonna kill me if I can't fit the stuff from Ikea amongst this lot".
As
- a) the purpose of the trip was originally to go to Ikea, and
- b) Fleur wanted some cabinets
We had a brief chat with Diana - it was clear to me that she was quite sentimental about the furniture after having raised three of her own children with it - and then we were on our way.
When we got to Ikea - rather circuitously and I'd rather not talk about that - we dismantled as much as we could and it turned out everything was going to fit just fine.
After getting all the stuff home, I re-assembled it all. I looked in awe at what was in front of me. This furniture is beautiful.
More importantly, its presence is starting to reinforce the reality of my life. We are making space for someone new - brand new. In around five months, I am going to be a father.
If you're reading this Diana, it looks great and it will be with us for a while, I'm sure.
# posted by Sherlock @ 9:26 PM 
