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Oct. 26th, 2002 02:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reddragdivaJust off the phone to the world. Fuck me, do they actually sell beds for non-midgets in this country? Are you all malevolent dwarves who actually consider a five-foot-wide mattress "king size"? I'm desperately searching for a six-foot-wide mattress that's actually in stock anywhere, won't take four to six sodding weeks to order in and won't cost most of a thousand quid. Tips gratefully welcomed.
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marnameow on Wednesday and retrieved my music hard disk. And my hat. Marlborough Head on Thursday was good, though the smoke got to even me by about nine. Stayed in last night rather than Tenebraeing, but I did discover to my horror that Midori and tequila is actually surprisingly drinkable. Maybe it could be called the Girlie Lolly Go Out And Burn The Street Down or something.
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Date: 2002-10-26 07:28 am (UTC)UK king size = 5ft x 6½ft
Something is not quite right there.
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Date: 2002-10-26 07:54 am (UTC)Tell me about it... And it's not just beds: let's look into the whole low ceilings question as well. The world's designed around shortarses and it's not bloody fair. :-)
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Date: 2002-10-26 08:07 am (UTC)I've been told there are a fair few secondhand furniture shops on Holloway Road near Highbury & Islington tube. But more leads are most welcome.
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Date: 2002-10-26 08:19 am (UTC)Fairly uninspiring selections though, although the one I got is lovely (and no longer stocked).
Good luck.
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Date: 2002-10-26 08:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2002-10-26 08:41 am (UTC)Marks and Spencer also have 6ft x 6ft 6 (well they're 180 x 200, which is the same isn't it?) but the delivery will be much longer.
Spot the woman with lots of furniture catalogues...
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Date: 2002-10-26 09:00 am (UTC)But Argos may be a possible. Thank you :-)
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Date: 2002-10-26 09:00 am (UTC)Netscape 6 or other browsers with the same rendering engine."
Hmm, moral dilemma ...
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Date: 2002-10-26 09:04 am (UTC)beds of the size you describe are called either 'super-kingsize' or 'emperor-size' in the UK. They do tend to be on the expensive side. Have a look at: http://www.onlinecabinets.co.uk/airsprung/royal_emperor.asp
http://www.bensonsforbeds.co.uk/index.asp
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Date: 2002-10-26 09:12 am (UTC)I think you owe me a drink. :)
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Date: 2002-10-26 09:37 am (UTC)PITA to buy fitted sheets for, but the size would be right for me ... unfortunately I have no idea where you'd buy one.
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Date: 2002-10-26 09:48 am (UTC)You can get them in contential europe - it seems to be one of the standard-ish sizes there. I know this because I returned with bedlinen last time I went to Belguim.
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Date: 2002-10-26 05:05 pm (UTC)Beds of size in the UK
Date: 2002-10-26 05:09 pm (UTC)http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/commerce/command/ExecMacro/ols_prod_detl.d2w/report?prrfnbr=6440437&prmenbr=6970&type=big&thisMode=ols&cgrfnbr=380186
At 170 quid it's not too bad, the only annoying thing about Argos is of course that you can't go into the shop and flop on it to see if you fit.
Of course I'm back in the land of cheap furniture and warehouse stores where you can paw over everything so what do I care :P
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Date: 2002-10-26 06:59 pm (UTC)twin: 95cm x 190cm
full: 135cm x 190cm
queen: 150cm x 200cm
king: 190cm x 200cm
And there's a fairly standard "extra-long" modifier that adds on 10 cm to any of the above. Being 190cm in length myself, I prefer the 200cm beds.
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Date: 2002-10-27 05:23 am (UTC)California Kings are the longest standard size in the U.S, but a normal king size is only four inches shorter and the widest at 6½ feet. It must be cool to be on a bed that's wider than I am tall. Shit, if U.K. bed sizes are anything to go by, a quad could sleep comfortably on that bed in that country! =)
I kinda like the way the Dutch refer to bed sizes—they simply say the dimensions in centimetres every time, instead of making up goofy names for them.
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Date: 2002-10-29 02:24 am (UTC)Maybe we can rectify that here in London some time?
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Date: 2002-10-29 04:33 am (UTC)I'm actually not in London anymore having returned to Brisbane in May, but I keep in contact with a bunch of the uk_goffs over the net.
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