Day 47 - 1:09pm, Saturday 16 February
Much of Saturday afternoon and evening are lost to desk building and the preparations for it. I am not a natural when it comes to following DIY booklet instructions. I find the pictures ambiguous and confusing. And I am never quite sure which way round a piece should be. I think this time round it will be difficult. This is the second desk of the same design that I have put together. Surely, it will be relatively straight forward second time round.
But no, it is not. Hubby is choked with the cold and looks awful (in the nicest possible way) but keeps offering to intervene. I say no, determined to finish the job I started. Eventually, I give in and ask for help. It turns out that it is not me at fault, nor even the instructions, but the desk. Hubby fixes it by shaving an extra bit off the back panel. I resume operations, my frustration growing to the point that I am delighted to break away to take the kiddies the bed. I read Little Master his Pokemon story and then read a whole chapter of Harry Potter to Little Miss. I never succeeded in getting her big brothers to like Harry Potter so I am rather enjoying the opportunity to re-read the first book to her now, thirty odd years since I first read it.
When I go downstairs, the desk is all but finished. It took me about five hours to get the desk half made. It's taken hubby half an hour or so to finish the rest. Teamwork!
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