Last year we had seven people at our Christmas dinner, and just about managed to fit around our dining table. But this year two of the seven have grown noticeably, and there's also a likelihood that we're going up to eight guests. While we've handled this once before by moving Funsize and Surprise! to an overflow table, that's not really good for Christmas where we'd actually all like to be together.
I concluded last week that we should probably therefore get ourselves a new dining table.
And so the secondary conclusion of this came about: with a dread inevitability we found ourselves yesterday visiting IKEA in search of a new dining table. So we packed six weeks of emergency rations, and off we went...
In the event it was less of an ordeal than I had feared. It turned out that they didn't have a suitable table, but Funsize, and especially Surprise! had a good time looking at all the various options for redesigning their rooms. It seems Surprise! wants to convert his room into some sort of gaming cave.
We did purchase a desk for Funsize, which I had the joys of assembling last night. And we got a table somewhere else. It was an expensive day.
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