We’ve made a mess of everything
Well, the bookcase is in place and looking very handsome. Unfortunately, getting it there, we’ve made a complete wreck of the rest of the house. Piles of books and magazines and CDs. Dust and cobwebs everywhere. It’s all got to go…somewhere.
If you’ll excuse us…shit to do.
Posted: December 4th, 2024 under personal.
Comments: 4
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Comment from Uncle Al
Time: December 4, 2024, 11:51 pm
Looking at that impressive and lovely piece of history, I’m reminded that there is one (possibly only one) good thing about flat-pack bookcases. And that’s that you can make each shelf space the right height with those little doodads you stick in the right set of holes. I hope @Stoaty can shuffle things around so she and @Uncle B don’t end up with paperbacks with too much headroom!
Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: December 5, 2024, 3:04 am
Always begin a planning session where re-arrangement of the household goods is the objective with a G & T. That way, when the absolute worst happens, you can blame it on the booze. If it turns out great, you can claim your success came from inspired revelations of a more spiritual nature.
Tally Ho!
Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: December 5, 2024, 8:30 am
Because, you see, Uncle A, penny dreadfuls have no place in a proper library!
For shame sirrah! The very idea!
These shelves were meant for the likes of Homer and Plato, in the original Greek sir!
A gilded leather bound edition of the complete works of the bard, a first printing edition of that scandalous and blasphemous reprobate Charles Darwin and his monkey book!
The better to definitively destroy his theories at proper dinners by first hand readings of his rubbish followed by learned discourse proving him wrong!
And hidden discretely on a lower shelf an unbowdlerized copy of One Thousand and One Nights for titillating reading after the children have been bundled off to bed.
Comment from Dan Patterson
Time: December 5, 2024, 2:49 pm
You have a very handsome bookcase there, Stoaty.
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