its tiring to build an Ikea Hemnes cupboard, even harder to carry it 4 flights of stairs when it weighs more than you do. But now its assembled, and all that money and effort (and I include the diligence of the nimble fingered children in some far off land with their well honed drilling and measuring skills) has meant that we can now put stuff in another place, rather than leaving it somewhere else.

book: Gemma Bovary by Posy Simmonds; Modernity at Large by Arjun Appadurai (which is doing nothing but make me feel really thick) and, wait for it, China Mievilles new book - very exciting.

rather like e2 (remember that from ages ago, back when this blog was youthful and innocent, like a virginal rabbit skipping towards the chopper of doom), well, this is a little like that...but of course, more in homage and well, more worthy. Its a liff thing. BBC - h2g2 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy