Less work, more chores

Ha – when you have less work your brain naturally goes 'oh goody, maybe we can have lots of fun this week instead' – but then the little demon that lives in there as well says 'not until you've nailed a shed load of those chores you've got on your list'… The mean niggling sod.

So – its been a week of thankless phone calls: 'hello bed shop, I need a single bed. No not a child's one with pirates on it, one for my elderly mother. No, not a medical bed, just a single bed – but we need one that is about 60cm high so she can get on and off it easily. No, not a captain's bed as most of those are about a metre high and she's not really in the jumping stage of life any more. No, not one with white scalloped headboard as she might not mind it but I still have to look at it every day. No, not the one that you say 'might be about 60cm' because I can see on your website that it's about knee height. And no, probably not the £800 one from John Lewis because really that's a lot for a single bed with no frills – or scallops – on…' 

And then the fun of filling out the endless horror forms for selling her flat – which contain about 100 questions I don't know the answers to, having never lived there. Not even the easy ones are really easy, as god knows if the dishwasher and washing machine in there are hers – would be awkward to sell them to the flat buyer and find that actually they belong to the tenant I've just given his marching orders…

Talking of awkward, also not an ideal situation when I flogged Mum's sofa bed (that's making room for the single bed) on eBay this week. Was in email communication with the eventual buyer, telling her my address, agreeing the price and pick up time when some bloke swooped in from nowheresville and pressed the Buy It Now button. Now, as an eBay novice I hadn't really thought that someone would buy it without even asking where I live.. And he of course then got really shitty about me trying to give his money back 'what you want my bank details? Shall I give you my PIN as well hey?' – what a tosser. Am guessing I will never be making my fortune from eBay.

And this is just a smidge of this week's fun. The only semi-highlight (and god its pretty dull so you can imagine what the rest of the week has covered) was FINALLY getting round to using U-Switch to look at our gas and electricity provider this morning. Suffice it to say we will now be paying £805 less a year by switching – supposedly from the 'most economical tariff' Southern Electricity had to offer. So if you haven't got round to that particular joyous task as yet – it's well worth it! The only warmth they were giving off was the feeling of being well and truly fleeced.

Happy days – thank god next week looks slightly more social – and then its off to Java a week on Tuesday, hurrah! Must get the rest of those chores cracked so I can sleep easy in my Yogyakarta bed x