Lift blog

Horrible...

I have just seen one of the worst houses ever on Grand Designs just now! Clients trying to be architects. An architect who obviously did not care. Disaster. Though the roof was interesting.

It is a Sunday, which must mean going to IKEA...

I dread going to IKEA. Not because of what they sell, but because of the crowds, the checkouts, the car parking etc. It turns what could be a good shopping experience into a bad one. This has improved recently by us going to a different IKEA (we used to go to Wembley, but now we go to Bristol). Same travel time but less stress.

While standing in the queue yesterday, I was thinking 'why don't IKEA offer online shopping?

It fits into their ethos of low-cost, choose it yourself shopping. In the UK they use 3rd-party delivery firms, so that side of it would need strengthening (do not get me started on those delivery companies). But it would make sense for them, and surely increase revenue, especially for those of us that cannot face the trip to a store.

Well looks like it may happen.

No news is good news, so they say

The Lift blog has been a bit sparse of late, mainly due to a week away in Cornwall. It was a chance for us to relax, and we hired a cottage from Classic Cottages, took the walking boots and our new kite (a Flexifoil Super 10) and had a great time. Just taking in the colour and scenery down there has inspired us no end.

New RSS reader in my applications folder...

Its called NewsFire and it is compact, neat and *just* works!