On the Eve of Departure...

...which sounds very poetic, but we're only going away for one night.

We are taking Son No 2 back down to the Glorious of Kingdom of Fife as college starts again for him on Monday. We could have sent him back via ferry and coach but I said it would be nice to take him back. This was not the result of overflowing mother love, although I do love him, naturally, but because I had A Cunning Plan.

 

Over the past couple of months as already noted I have been trying to turn his room into something  which resembles a proper bedroom rather more than it resembles a hamster nest. This has involved getting rid of some old dark and heavy furniture (most of which is destined to be recycled as shelving in The Big Shed) and replacing it with something lighter, more modern and less space consuming. It also meant moving the bed into a much more sensible position than Son No 2 had insisted on placing it way back when. It was also dependent on a lot of de-cluttering, which it was more than my life was worth to undertake myself. Because I'd have been guaranteed to chuck out something worthwhile and precious. So for a wee while each day since Christmas he and I have tackled the piles of Stuff. Some of it has gone. Some of it is safely boxed, ready to be taken to The Big Shed. And some of it is staying in situ.

 

Most of what is staying in situ needs to be on shelves, taking as it does the forms of PS games, Dvds etc etc and he currently has three small and totally insufficient sets of shelves for this purpose. We need much bigger shelves; in fact what this boils down to - in my mind at least - is that we need two large Billy bookcases from IKEA. There are only two branches of IKEA in the whole of Scotland and both are located in the Central Belt. I may have moaned about this here before. One  in Edinburgh and one in Glasgow and it is to the Edinburgh branch to which , dear reader, we are bound tomorrow.

 

Down one day and back the next:  we'll be exhausted by the  time we get home. And even more exhausted by the end of Sunday as OH will have to assemble the things and then I'll have to fill them. However it will then be a case of mission accomplished for that room and I can start haranguing the plumber, really nicely, on Monday about coming to finish off the  bathroom. As soon as he likes. If not sooner.