Lycka, Frycken, Kolon!

It has been overcast and grey all day here, such familiar weather  that I have had to keep reminding myself I am still in Australia. We found ourselves at Ikea once more. Ros came with us and apparently so did everyone else from a 50 km radius of the store. It took us some time to find a space in the vast covered car park. We joined the queues wandering past and admiring the Pult, Sniglar, Mumsig and fingering the Lycka, Fryken,Kolon.We got a few more items for the man cave and Ros bought some bottles of Glogg and a tin of Pepparkaka  before we headed back to the car park. Will went off to get the car while Ros and I waited in the Customer Pick Up section. A few minutes later he came back...he couldn’t find the car. Ros went with him while I sat with the trolleys. It took them quite awhile to navigate to where I was waiting and I very nearly started nibbling the Pepparkaka and sipping the Glogg.We went to Bunnings, for some wood stain and more seedlings to plant in the garden here in Brisbane. I checked out the rodent traps but they were all pretty deadly. Is Rambo expendable?The Mount Gravatt Men’s Shed (?!) were in charge of this weekend’s sausage sizzle and Will and I succumbed to the mouth watering aroma...we were starving!Back at Ros’s we managed to squeeze the bookcase she had promised us into Roxy and drove home.We placed the bookcase in its new home in the man cave and were saved from assembling flat pack furniture by the arrival of Danny, Will’s brother. He has just returned from China where he got married and he showed us some of the pictures from his trip.Will and I both zonked out after tea with David Attenborough in Wild India and the rain that had been threatening to fall all day finally let go of the grey clouds it had been clinging on to.The flat pack furniture lies in wait, downstairs, for tomorrow. Perhaps like the shoemaker in the Grimm fairytale I shall awake in the morning to find it all assembled, only not by elves...by cockroaches!I dream.