House plants

We rolled into Bodø station precisely on time despite a touch of delay on departure. I headed straight up to my friend Nina's place and saw her stood on the balcony.

Having not seen eachother since 2019 it was great to see Nina again. Ross wouldn't be arriving until late afternoon, but we got straight down to the errands and tasks we had come to help out with. First one was re-potting house plants and assembling flat-pack furniture.

The flat-pack is a much maligned and often despised type of project; this one stood out from the class as a source of frustration. Joints were out by several millimetres of tolerance, dowels were wrong diameters and holes did not line up - the various pieces apparently having come from different batches or machines that were imprecise.

Having valiantly successes in not throwing the dratted thing off the balcony, a trip to the garden centre for more supplies and collecting Ross from the airport rounded out the day's progress.Read more