today mostly...

I have been skiving off work. I was filled with good intentions this morning and intended to go in, but before I knew where I was it was 10am, and I found myself phoning the office to say that I was working on a report at home. I decided to take the opportunity to go to IKEA. It was a lovely relaxed visit. The place was packed, of course, but nothing like the way it is at the weekends in the run up to Christmas. I bought a few sensible things (energy saving bulbs, a new colander, a couple of folding chairs for our new smoking perch and some coffee, which is pretty good and only costs £1 a bag) and a less sensible thing (a huge, and I mean huge, white with a blue pattern, enamel tray) and then I bought the thing that Mrs McMuffin will berate me for. I don't know why I did it, but I guess my boy genes got the better of me. It was just way too cool. I bought this. I can't imagine that we will be able to put it anywhere in the house. It is just too naff, but I thought it was fantastic. It is just soooo futuristic, in a Space 1999 kind of way. I would have loved one of these as a kid. Maybe I can put it in the office we are setting up in the once-was-room-of-shame.

It's not all been skiving though. I've put another coat of paint on the window in the dining room and done a bit of tidying up too. All I need to do now is to make some dinner for when Mrs McMuffin comes home. And then we will be ready to have the debate about whether we miss Battlestar Galactica so that we can watch Children of Dune (BG is repeated on Thursday). The problem is I refused to miss BG a couple of weeks ago so that Mrs McMuffin could watch something else.