Sofabed: 1 Mad Hatter: 0

Continuing in the domestic ranting theme, the last few days have been kitset furniture hell.

It's a simple enough recipe: take one nasty kitset sofabed, one moderately domestically challenged gal - combine with a pinch of allan key and adjustable wrenchy thing and set to steam.

After a suitable length of time [let's just say it was a leetle longer than the advertising promised], the Mad Hatter tightens up the last allan key thingy that you tighten and stands up to admire her handy werk.

Cue: anguished groan as the Mad Hatter realises how royally she has fucked it up.

You would think, that with a four piece frame, two of which are impossible to put on the wrong way around and the other two of which have a very definite right and wrong side, there wouldn't be too many problems right?

But that's cos' you have over estimated the abilities of someone who is completely lost in the trees of nuts, bolts and screws and diagrams etc - rather than looking at the big picture. Sure enough, one of the ends of the sodding thing was on the wrong way around resulting in me starting all over again, swearing like a trooper and cursing the evil monkeys with design software that invented kitset crap.

Grrrrrrrrr.

Going to my zen place now, I may be gone for some time.