It's only 12,000 miles to Heaven.

[reddragdiva]

Things not to do: go out to fucking Lakeside, go to Ikea, get every damn thing on your list in record time (redcountess had sent me an email with the catalogue number of every item. Perfect!), gather it all up, get to the till and discover you've lost your Switch. Again.

J.G. Ballard could hardly have done better: TRAPPED IN LAKESIDE, NO MONEY TO GET HOME.

arkady came out and rescued me. And spotted us the cash for the near-on six hundred quid of household whatsits I'd collected up. There's going to be one heck of a delivery tomorrow afternoon ... probably while the landlord is over doing the structural inspection.

My fucking God I need some decent sleep. I'm not going to get it, you know.