Holey Smoke!

What a day for DIY, hmmm, it's even more difficult when the stuff you need doesn't come with any instructions!

With my monster clear out I'd unearthed some shelves that we bought back 2 years ago on a trip to Ikea. They've been in the shed since we got them, and with good reason, they are a real PITA to put up - they are the shelves that fit flush with the wall with no visible fixings, and after Phil put up one set in our bedroom he swore he'd not put up anymore, and so as a consequence they remaining shelves we had have been sat in the shed doing little more than taking up room.

Bless him though he overcame his avid hatred for them today and put up another set in the study. Well that was the idea, but after re-drilling the same holes 3 times to try and get the hole the right size he's thrown his toys out of the pram and given up. I don't blame him, it's soul destroying when you can't get something right. THe only problem now is that we've got a wall with 6 very large holes in it and no shelf to cover them up. So we nip to homebase to get some polyfilla or some larger plugs to accommodate the holes, either will do really! As it happens they have these special plugs called Twist N Fix which apparently help to fix mis-drilled holes if they are out of line, and whilst they are not exactly for the problem we have they might well do the trick so we head home to give them a go.

And, hurrah! They work a treat so we've got one set of shelves up but have decided that perhaps the best place for the last remaining set would be the dump.

Of course I don't think we were aided that much by the fact that one of our neighbours was taking more than the occasional toke on some Margie Wana, and the passive smoke was rolling out of their window into our study - it stunk!

Oh we went to see The Da Vinci Code today as well - it was crap, not a patch on the book and Tom Hanks looks rank with that mullet thing he had going on.

Posted by Abi on the May 28, 2006 9:57 PM