Be Excellent To Each Other

Funnily enough, I was at the Trafford centre today (and Liverpool One yesterday) and there were loads of large screen advertising displays with windows 10 update notifications slap bang in the middle of them. Sloppy.

During half-term? Are you out of your mind?

I went to Ikea on Tuesday. As we went up to escalator I realised how grave my error. *shudder*.

We went to the sea life centre and then into the shops. It was fine. Much quieter than I've ever seen it.

I love going to Ikea.

Me too. In my head, I associate it with going to the metro centre as a kid. Big shops, Toys R Us, IKEA and *Metroland*!

I fucking loved Metroland. Indoor funfair. It's still there I believe, but it's a shadow of what it once was

So do I. But what’s the point of going to Ikea if you don’t visit the restaurant?

There was a guard on the entrance point to the restaurant, with a wait and queue if 20 minutes to get into the restaurant, just to be allowed to queue another 30 minutes to select your food... then you had a further massive queue to pay (whilst your food was getting cold) and there were loads of people standing around as despite the guard on the restaurant entrance there were too many people in the restaurant to be seated.

We live about five minutes from Ikea so we’ll just go next week when it’s safer

You came for the furniture, not for the lesson in communism.

I've never tried.

Neither have we, before this week. Forget standing an hour for food with a two year old, though

I do enjoy the meatballs.

And the "refillable" beverages

Last time I went to IKEA, the choice of drinks was pap. Stuff like peach, cranberry and other strange things.

What's wrong with coke and lemonade?

I had multiple cups of tea.

Coffee for me.

and DAIM CAKE.

What’s wrong with you? There’s lingonberry, and elderflower... and they have cola, and lemon/lime. Go sit in the wronguns corner.

Daim cake 4eva.

We should do a BeeX meet at IKEA.

Warrington is lovely this time of year.

Think of all the candles and cushions we could buy between us!

I've only been to Ikea once and found it rather bewildering. I guess I wasn't expecting it to be so sprawling and with staff that just seem to stay in the background. We had a hot dog at the end and I've had better ones from car boot food vans.

I'm not cut out for shopping in actual shops it seems.

The one in Wednesbury? Last few times we've been there, they didn't have any cola setup on the machine

Batley better.

I concur. I didn't see any cola drink last time I was there.

Really? Hmm... maybe they’ve removed it then. I always go for the elderflower or pear, or lingonberry because you can buy comma anywhere. Ikea is for Ikea flavours.

EVERY time I go I end up having to shop against the flow of the herd. The store layout always gets me.

Warrington one has a Decathlon store nearby too.

One of central tenants of MaliCool

Here are the other four.

So does Wednesburt. About 2-300m door to door

And Nottingham.

I'm going on this later today because I'm an utter child:

http://www.queenelizabetholympicpark.co ... -the-slide

And yet the beer siren is oddly silent.

We are getting a decathlon in Telford soon..

MiniPaz's birthday party today. 14 seven-year-old girls in the house. Noisy.

Today I have mostly been cleaning my tank and submarine.

My condolences.

I survived

Yay!

I'm never having a party at home again. Worst parenting decision I've ever made. I STILL have glitter in the fucking carpet (Izz's was in November)

Moving house is how I solved all sorts of issues like that.

Isn't everyone coming to yours in March?

It was a movie party, so they were mainly sitting down and staring at a projector screen. Glitter? Fuck, no.

Yeah, I stopped inviting him to my kids parties years ago.

"Everyone" is overstating it a bit. Maybe four people. No one has confirmed as staying yet!

My next door neighbour seemed to have been having a very similar party at the same time. Do you live next door to me? If so, can I borrow your Jag?

*Applauds*

If you can pay for the warranty, sure!

It's on my todo list...



I thought Gaz and I had ... or if not, consider this confirmation

ah, the good old tried and tested Hearthly approach

I lived in my flat for four years, not four months.

Actual snow on the ground!