Pinpricks of brightness (38/365)

[white_hart]

It may be close to freezing with a bitter east wind making it feel much colder, but as I was sitting in my car waiting for my friend to go swimming today I spotted that the daffodils are up along the edge of the (currently flooded) park.



Also, my dad has now had his first vaccination, which is good news, though somehow I don't feel the huge surge of relief a lot of people have described feeling as their vulnerable people were vaccinated. Maybe because it's not COVID that is really curtailing his life, it's his general health? But it's still good news. My mother hasn't been vaccinated yet as she's not 70 until May.

And tomorrow our new sofa is arriving, as after about two years of saying "we really should get a new sofa" we finally gave in and ordered one. (Our old sofa is 18 years old, and has partly collapsed at one end; for the last couple of years we've been sitting in the even-older armchairs that we were given secondhand when we moved in together in 1999 but the armrests of both are now pretty much destroyed and have nails sticking out of them, so a new sofa really isn't just wanton extravagance.)

Comments

[mountainkiss]

I'm pretty sure you don't need to wait eighteen years before a new sofa ceases to be wanton extravagance.

[perennialanna]

It has only just occurred to me that my own sofa is coming up to 18 now. As is the toaster (wedding presents...).

Unfortunately, the mattress comes higher than the sofa on the replacement list, funds being what they are and the mattress being even more woefully uncomfortable. Arranging myself around the poking springs every night is almost a yoga practice.

[white_hart]

Our mattress (and indeed bed) was also a wedding present but we replaced that a few years ago.

Being able to afford a new sofa is the one good thing to have come out of basically not being able to go anywhere for the last 11 months.

[perennialanna]

My bed frame was bought by me before the wedding, so I have decided that I can live with it. The mattress is ten years old this year, and has felt weird ever since he left - but mattresses are so very expensive. I do feel rather proud of having saved enough money to replace it though.

[white_hart]

That is an impressive achievement, and I'm glad you will be able to have a mattress with no memories of the fuckweasel attached to it.

[white_hart]

I kind of feel that a big bit of furniture like that ought to be for life...

[mountainkiss]

I don’t think they live as long as we do.

[caulkhead]

I found out yesterday that M is utterly convinced this is the third sofa we've had, but when challenged was completely unable to describe the other two. I can understand not noticing the furniture, but how do you think it has changed when it hasn't?

[mountainkiss]

Did you move it?

[caulkhead]

No! I put a throw over the old one (we have in fact had two) when it got really badly faded, which subsequently moved on to the 'new ' one, maybe that's sufficient?

[mountainkiss]

That would do it.

[perennialanna]

I can't picture either of your sofas at all. Perhaps you accidentally chose the ones with a chameleon circuit (not guaranteed against turmeric stains).