Unflinching, I ventured into the beast's maw, and emerged victorious. Has anyone of you went to IKEA, and only bought one single thing (keeping to the shopping list in a strict fashion also counts)? I got my worklamp returned and they gave me a voucher, which I used to buy another lamp (which sadly was a couple pounds more expensive than my old one, but it's blue so it's all right). It was all quite hassle-free in the end.
As a bonus I got to see Croydon! It looked like this:
Resembles an English city, yes?
The old (150 years) department store in the area, Allders was closing for good. It had only six days to go, and was mostly empty already, but I found this:
Fluffy, colourful textiles! Oh wow!
And that pretty much made my day (: Imagine what I can do with them! Everything is possible.
Roomie had taken care of herself all right while I was gone, she even made a new friend:
Have you ever seen such a fat and green locust or whatever it's called in English. (Grasshopper?)
Tomorrow we'll take the early train to Paris, so au revoir for a little while!
