Feathering the Nest (literally)

[bugshaw]

The new bed is now assembled and I can report it is very comfy to sleep on! To add additional snug loveliness, we have topped it with a new goose down duvet. Mmmmmm.... The old futon has been put in the living room in its "sofa" configuration, and covered with a throw to tone in better with the decor, and it looks super! We hadn't been planning to have a second sofa in there, but it fits so perfectly. (And now there will be more places for people to sit at the party!)

I have lots else I want to say, and there are lots of posts I want to comment to. I hope I will have the energy and brain remaining when I get home this evening.

Comments

[numbat.livejournal.com]

If you don't have the energy perhaps instead you might like to ponder that in Remarkable Names Of Real People, compiled by John Train he lists somebody called Original Bug as being mention in the Liverpool Echo (but not what year unfortunately).

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, pondering is easy. Original Bug sounds like one of these bizarre spammer names people are using these days.

Thank you for the beautiful card BTW (talking of feathers) - it also goes very well in the living room! I always thought of Australia as more lush and verdant because of all the amazing plants you have (and the ability to grow pineapples in your back garden), but I guess that comes from seeing the plants in isolation instead of against a background of dry dust.

[numbat.livejournal.com]

There are lush tropical places in Australia and there are some spots which seemingly have no shortage of water. They make up only a small part of this very large island though. I've travelled out west, past Canberra and spent as much as six hours on the road without seeign a house or a tree, just dry brown grass and the occasional fence. Out there for most of the year the native birds are the only colour.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Apologies again for not being able to bring my broad posterior to make use of your expanded sofa facilities (as it happens, SK will be having chemo on Saturday...).

Have a fabby one :-)

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

I was still finding feathers escaping from my super duvet 5 years on, and latching themselves into the carpet. The problem with a really nice bed is that everything else is a disappointment, especially the Eastercon and Novacon hotels, where I wanted to put duvets under rather than over me to even out the lumps.

I can picture my 1200 pocket spring mattress in its container in Slough as I lie on my hard bamboo mat ...