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Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Sofas and offroading
We drove down to some shops on Saturday to buy a sofa. We've lived in our house now for about 6 or 7 months and so far we've got by with a tiny little wooden chair, but I'm now permanently bent double, so we thought something a little more comfortable was in order.
There's a huge sofa we like from Ikea but, even though we've knocked down several walls, there's no way it'll fit. We went to Ikea and sat on every sofa in the bloody big blue warehouse, but they were all shit, so we stormed out.
Over the road was a big M&S so we went in there and sat on every sofa and we liked one of them so we bought a couple of them. They'll arrive in December. Until then, we'll manage, don't worry about us.
On Sunday I drove round the left of the Lake District, past Sellafield, to a field just south of Carlisle for some offroadin'. I've only done 1 RTV (road taxed vehicle) competition before and it was gnarly and I broke my steering, but I loved it. This one was with a different club who have an even gnarlier reputation, and I was very worried, but quite excited too.
Anyway, it turned out to be super gnarly with loads of mud and huge drop-offs and steep hills and all that stuff, and I did really well and didn't break anything and it was briiliant! The last course was through a very deep bog in which some people got stuck sideways, with their passenger window submerged in mud, their driver's window pointing up into the sky. I was very worried about this one so when I got to it I put my foot down and went swooshing through it at high speed, bouncing all over the place with mud flying everywhere. I got through it with no damage, but my Land Rover was covered in mud, which I've proudly still not washed off yet.
My dented, scratched and very muddy car is out in the car park next to shiny Mondeos and BMWs and I think it looks cool.
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