Room to improve

Several months ago Flash and I took a trip to IKEA.

As a person with no budgeting skills I thought I'd be in safe hands shopping with Carol. I was wrong.

She encouraged me to buy everything I liked the look of.

Though I still haven’t finished paying off my credit card bill from that month I was very pleased with the end product.

I came away with a bedside table, a dining room table, two bins, a few storage boxes, a tin of green wood stain (still unused) and stack of photo frames. I also got another trolley full of smelly candles. No one leaves IKEA without candles.

I've always liked interiors and looking into beautiful people's beautiful homes, but I've always wondered where they keep their stuff. My solution for my room was two bins. I'd throw all of my rugby gear, the source of most of the mess in my life, in two bins under my new dining table desk.

It worked a treat. That evening I was very pleased with myself. I had a belly full of Swedish meatballs and a room that I felt was blog worthy. It was a wonderful 24 hours....

It has looked like this almost all of the time since. Like so many other things in my life, it's a mess.