For the past couple of days, I have been mainly ikeaing; assembling the last bits of the order that came last weekend, going on a hunter-gatherer mission to Milton Keynes to pick up more and then back to assembly this morning.

Most of it has been fairly straightforward and I now feel moderately competent at following the illustrated instructions (no words, so they can ship the same package to any country in the world without including a translation). One or two things have required a little adaptation though – the kitchen wardrobe (cabinet is what we shall probably call it but it is a Pax wardrobe) was not wide enough for the slider mechanism so I had to cut and file a couple of bits of aluminium to adapt it to our needs.

There is more still to do but our kitchen is definitely heading towards completion.