Why, thank you, Carinthia! Just the job.
Slàinte Mhath!
Soo xx
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He appears to have a cat as well, and the cat appears to be planning to murderize the photographer.
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To be in keeping with all the home-making going on, I am off out to look at a mattress, or more to the point to lie on a mattress and see whether it feels firm enough for my needs. The one I have at present has developed a sag in it so acute that it has quite literally made a hole in one of my sheets where my elbow went down into the mattress and there was suddenly no mattress to lean on. This sag is in a place where I am absolutely certain to lean and thus go through another sheet, so what else can I do?
The problem is that the bed I have is a “Queen”, or a Small Double, four foot wide; this is non-standard to the point of being regarded by bed sales persons as weirdness. Dreams, which is the local shop here, don’t have mattresses to fit them! So I am reduced to a long trek to Ikea, who have precisely one make, the VALEVÅG, in that size, but do offer a ten-year guarantee, which since the one I have at the moment may have cost half as much but has been useable for less than three years, is something of a draw.
Wish me luck! They almost certainly won’t have one in stock, but they do in fact deliver to our local Tesco, apparently, so once I have made sure I want it I can order one and fetch it from there. Or they may even deliver to the door.
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Good luck, wor Fish!
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All paws and wings crossed here
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Encouraging waggle dance happening here, Fishers. A new mattress seems like a Very Good Idea. Our best mattress (also 4 feet wide) is on a spare bed - Healthopaedic is the brand.
Soo xx
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Ikea mattresses are supposed to be very good quality, Fishy. What sort of base do you have it on?
My double bed base has storage drawers on either side, & a piece of hardboard was made to fit the top. It ‘stabilises’ the mattress.
Carinthia.xx
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The bed was made for me by a Deserving Cause who happened to be a rather good carpenter, and has a slat base high enough from the ground for getting in and out to be easy, and storage boxes to fit underneath.
I now have the desired mattress, which is unwrapped and unwound and breathing its way to useable. I lay down on both the Firm and the Medium Firm and opted for Firm. And they had it in stock. Also, a first for me in Ikea, an assistant asked if he could help, and then helped, and wrote down the details for me when he discovered I had no phone to take a picture of the product number, aisle and location in the storage shelves downstairs.
Win all round, I feel. Slammers?
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Oh well done, Fishy
Did it fit in Mini?
I know that many mattresses come rolled, these days.
Accepts Slammer innan Grateful Manner
Carinthia.xx
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I went in Glorious Skoda, because she can go into the ULEZ and Mini can’t, but it probably would have fitted in Mini, just. Yes, it was a roll, and it weighed 56lb.
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‘Bouncy, bouncy, bouncy’?
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Have several Gus biscuits when you stop bouncing
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I’m not the one with the sproingy new mattress, Twellsy, but I’ll take the biscuits anyway. Thank you.
Gxx
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Our new 5 years ago mattress is still very bouncy and feels like sleeping on a supportive cloud
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I got a duff one last time.
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[muted boingity]
Sleep tight, Cellarites.
Gxx
Must have been all the IKEA talk, but I nearly choked onna Swedish meatball earlier. Wor Chatelaine - no doubt currently patching her eardrum - can testify.
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Morning all
May your day be filled with flolloping mattresses and unkinked backs
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My day has involved being chased by a bleedin’ gurt ‘ornet.
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I wonder what would happen if a hornet got into one of those dodgy nightclubs where they mist alcohol into the air.
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