The neverending exchange

He has been trying to buy a flat in Brum now for what seems like a quite ridiculous time. The flat itself is very well known to him being the current home of the long suffering yet lovely Dennis which he decided to buy so he could stop being the said long suffering yet lovely Dennis's lodger and get some landlord revenge on her, how very adultlike.

Unfortunately matters have dragged on for ever and despite the fact that he should have exchanged over two months ago they have not. Imagine his amusement this afternoon when his solicitor rang to let him know there was a problem with the deposit, to whit there were no funds available.

Notwithstanding the fact that he does not own it he is carrying on like it is already his and got the current owner to clean out all her stuff at the weekend. The downside of this is that it leaves the flat rather barren and so he got to enjoy a weekend of furniture shopping. Fortunately that was not too bad and the long suffering but sill lovely Dennis proved a more than capable shopping companion and kept him on the straight and narrow (save for the £250 spent on a duvet cover which he justified on the basis that "I got some banter out of the shop assistant so well worth it").

Of course when furnishing a flat one cannot live by House of Fraser alone and so today he has mightily enjoyed the best shopping experience the Swedes can offer and spent the evening erecting flat pack furniture and cursing and the inability of the Swedes to remember to put all the necessary parts in the box. Notwithstanding this setback he is feeling somewhat smug with the progress he has made, we rather suspect that the shelves will collapse overnight however and wipe the grin of his face. Although when he realises that he has forgotten a few things himself and has to head back to the joys of Ikea that should knocke off that grin on its own.