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Something silly

What are THEY for? said the man behind me, to his wife, as I was shopping today.  Many a time I have thought the same, but never out loud in case it was obvious and it might sound silly... Passing a group of upturned ladies in the bargain basement, heads invisible in the depths of big tubs of material, bottoms raised towards the ceiling.  Cries of 'what are these for?' ringing in the air as I wandered past...Where was I today?

Sarah Felstead ● 7222d8 Comments

Conversation between Mother-in-Law and partially deaf Elderly Lady whilst visiting a nursing home today.MIL:  "you ARE lovely you are all right"  EL 'all white? well I suppose I am, because I haven't been in much sun lately...'

Sarah Felstead ● 7219d

What a lovely daughter in law you are Sarah! Strange that Ikea didn't recognise the names when I input them in the search area. I won't tell you I could buy them cheaper here but I will tell you two years ago my daughter sent me a string of red chili pepper lights at Christmas time. I thought they were just perfect for the patio. However come the Spring when I wanted to put them up I couldn't find them. We looked everywhere. They turned up three weeks ago when my son was helping to clear out our attic. All nicely stored away with the Christmas lights!

Audrey Walton ● 7220d

Audrey.  The Skinna I bought (x3 packs) was a string of outdoor (or indoor) lights with 10 bulbs and shades which are large dragonflies.  The bulb is set into the ‘body’ of each dragonfly and the dragonfly is made of clear plastic to allow the light to show through..  They are lovely.  Mind you, with our prices here, you can probably tell us that you can buy them in a longer length and for half that price!The Flitig is a child’s bench seat in strong metal and orange plastic being sold at £3.90.  They have a number of children’s seats and a rocking chair all knocked down to under £5.00 or so – won’t be there by the end of the week!I bought the bench seat for Mother-in-Law to give to her neighbours 8 year old granddaughter who goes in and sits and reads to her every day, they can both sit comfortably on the bench seat in the garden and if it gets left out in the rain it won’t matter.  It is made of a strong metal under frame, with the plastic seat on the top – and I put it together last night with no difficulties (hooray!)..The Brent Cross Ikea is the biggest in this Country and they are knocking the car park around outside to expand the store some more.  When I went in yesterday it was crammed with stock, even the sale items, and I normally find that having chosen something, I go to pick it up and they don’t have it!  It is a short distance from Wembley stadium and there is a fine view of the new archway from the car park.

Sarah Felstead ● 7221d

Closest Ikea to me is couple of hundred miles away in Seattle, Washington. I drove past one in Tempe, Arizona last year and the parking lot was HUGE!! Regards what you bought - even the Ikea site couldn't identify anything!! Only thing I found was Skina, something glass.Ikea is negotiating to build a new store about half a mile from the entrance to Portland Airport; what traffic conjestion that will cause!

Audrey Walton ● 7221d

Oh, okay then.  I was in Ikea.  I often find myself looking at strange artefacts in the store and pondering on what on earth they are.  Another thing which I wonder over is whether anyone ever tries to pronounce those 'strange' sh-veedish vords.  Today I bought a Skinna (well, actually I bought 3 because I was very pleased with these - £5 each pack, in the sale); a Jattene; a Duktig and one Flitig.(Try running those through a spellchecker Colin);-)

Sarah Felstead ● 7221d

1 store in Iceland; 3 in Czech Republic but none in Ireland, according to the list, Ann!

Sarah Felstead ● 7221d

I thought that this was an unfair question for you Audrey, as this company has not yet taken over the world - or so I thought.  I checked their web site and they already have 24 stores in the US!

Sarah Felstead ● 7221d

I don't know where you were Sarah but here these silly things are used to "get your attention" to a sale. Usually they look like kids. Walgreen's, a drug store chain, used to have them all over the store but not any more. Also I've seen them for sale at craft stores and bazaars. They do make you smile!

Audrey Walton ● 7222d