It’s freezing – literally. It has been sub-zero all day and the streets have been relatively quiet. I have persuaded my adopted Chinese parents that they needed new chairs. He was sitting in a collapsible garden deck chair and she was sitting on a plastic stool even though they had a perfectly serviceable sofa.
However, the sofa is too low to get in and out of now they are getting old and so they don’t use it, instead using this sub-standard seating. Once I had persuaded them to get proper chairs, it became obvious that I would have to be in charge of it.
So I went to Ikea, photographed all the suitable chairs, got an agreement on one of them and purchased it, delivered it and assembled it and they were so pleased that they decided to have another.
So the following day off I go again to Ikea to get another one. Luckily the biting wind meant that Ikea on a Sunday was not quite the nightmare it usually is. And now my old friends are sitting pretty in new chairs and the nasty collapsible deck chair is consigned to history.
There’s no way that elderly people should go out in this weather so I am pleased to be able to help. Perhaps when I am old and grey someone will do the same for me!
