Reply to: DOOM: Great Furniture Delay: ‘We’ll be eating Christmas dinner on our camping tables’

[vetran]

This is the problem with contractors - new money

Funny the country houses I have seen are normally worse than our old house behind the scenes. Now the Sheik's house with the racecourse that was emaculate.

this one amused me.

"Dad...why does the front of our house have 24 windows?"

"It's tough during winter. The only cardboard I could find was an Advent calendar."

[d000hg]

I'd still eat that - the pizza hasn't touched the floor (yet)

that was exactly my thought!

[ladymuck]

Furniture? Who cares about a lack of furniture? I'll be happy to just get my Christmas dinner home while it's still warm!

I'd still eat that - the pizza hasn't touched the floor (yet)

[d000hg]

You had dirt? Luxury - we didn't even have floors! Our parents bought an old run down house that had rough brick or rotten wood floors, my early years were digging. Oh and leaky single glazed windows a white XMAS was freezing.

This is the problem with contractors - new money

[vetran]

[NLUK]You had orange crates? When I were a lad we had to sit on the dirt and be grateful for it. We then had to eat the dirt once it had been defrosted enough by our body heat[/NLUK]

You had dirt? Luxury - we didn't even have floors! Our parents bought an old run down house that had rough brick or rotten wood floors, my early years were digging. Oh and leaky single glazed windows a white XMAS was freezing.

My kids moan if their bedrooms aren't perfectly decorated.

[Gibbon]

Who remembers homemade go-karts and the luxury of used pram wheels, my mate got really lucky with pneumatic ones . I swear I learnt more about applied physics and engineering in my Dad's garage with that go-kart than I ever learnt at school. He might have fed us rabbit, but he had a well stocked garage and he also had pigeon bangers. These days I'd be in prison with the 'bombs' and mortars we built and fired.
Portek Day Rope Bangers, Double Bang (box of 12 ropes) (spaldings.co.uk)

[ladymuck]

That's my childhood, also no carpets and orange crates for stools, ice on the inside of the windows etc. And fecking lead shot infested rabbit apart from Sunday.

[NLUK]You had orange crates? When I were a lad we had to sit on the dirt and be grateful for it. We then had to eat the dirt once it had been defrosted enough by our body heat[/NLUK]

[d000hg]

That's my childhood, also no carpets and orange crates for stools, ice on the inside of the windows etc. And fecking lead shot infested rabbit apart from Sunday.

Curiously, I spotted half a dozen orange crates chucked out behind the pub when I was at the dentist this morning. Result.

[d000hg]

Loads of excellent second hand furniture to be had out there, ready to be delivered.

Or free for that matter. Especially older stuff that's no longer in vogue. But your local big BHF or similar will have stuff for £5-10 that is probably quite good.

[Gibbon]

Could be worse it could have been pigeon...

I liked pigeon and can even tolerate any left over shot, even better was duck, never minded the plucking either, still don't when I get chance.

[SueEllen]

That's my childhood, also no carpets and orange crates for stools, ice on the inside of the windows etc. And fecking lead shot infested rabbit apart from Sunday.

Could be worse it could have been pigeon...

[ravenshaw]

Furniture? Who cares about a lack of furniture? I'll be happy to just get my Christmas dinner home while it's still warm!

[Gibbon]

Wallpaper table from Screwfix for about £15 plus a white table cloth for £20. Job done. FFS, half the world sit on the floor and eat.

That's my childhood, also no carpets and orange crates for stools, ice on the inside of the windows etc. And fecking lead shot infested rabbit apart from Sunday.

[hairymouse]

Loads of excellent second hand furniture to be had out there, ready to be delivered.

Sign up for freecycle and be amazed at the amount of stuff being thrown out every day. You could have 3 tables and 4 sofas in a week for free.

[Mordac]

Wallpaper table from Screwfix for about £15 plus a white table cloth for £20. Job done. FFS, half the world sit on the floor and eat.

This.

Talk about first world problems. Wait till she finds out her Ocado order has substitutions...