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I present you all with the answer to my question earlier this week: How to lose a three seat sofa.

But allow me a brief detour around the rest of my day… to properly appreciate the significance of this moment…

Yes, dear reader, it started badly (as I’m beginning to get used to days doing, also here), in that the water was turned off on shawmoss road, just before I could shower and shave. Now, you could argue that it was better the water got turned off before I got in the shower and got into a half-lathered state. But I needed that shower to wake me.

I then discovered my iMac had died overnight. Fans whirring at maximum for goodness knows how long. No lost work (Macs don’t do that on the whole), but a restart is a slow process. I blame my new phone and it’s USB charger that has been known to cause Mac’s to crash. Shame that Sony Ericsson have changed the connector profile, so I only have the one now rather than three I would have had if they’d kept the same shape as their previous phones. Grrr.

Anyway, I digress. Well, allow me a little bit more of a digression. Wood floor fitters arrived promptly just after 9am, and they made a start on the final room. Time passed. Some progress, but slow going. Anyway, just after midday they advised that the senior chap was having stomach cramps, and they were knocking off early. So they’re coming back tomorrow. Unfortunately that means we have only a 1/3 completed kitchen floor now. There’s also the risk they didn’t supply us with enough wood, but maths are on my side and we agree on the surface area estimated. The supplied amount just doesn’t include enough, so they’ll need to go for more. Problem is, it loses us a lie-in that we both desperately need.

Right, digression over. Where do you find a three seat sofa? Answer? In the back of a lorry. Really. The sofas turned up this afternoon, and the delivery guy started off saying he had two, and all that. I said yes. When they’d delivered the standalone seat, he asked if we were expecting a third? I said yes, and, well, it was in the back of the bloody lorry after all.

So, some advanced mathematics and spacial rotation work later (do sofa delivery guys get mathematics degree’s? If not, the should. It was stunning how they worked the sofa’s through that door), we have all the sofas and seats we were expecting, including the three seat sofa that had supposedly been ‘lost’. Despite double checking; Despite various processes and apologies.

Well, I’m not about to rush and phone up Sofa Workshop. But I have decided not to tell Frances just yet. She needs cheering up, and it’ll be a nice surprise (I think) to come home and find all the sofas in place. I’m even not publishing this until just after six when she normally leaves, just to be doubly sure.

So, as Bernard said when I blabbed about it (well, I had to to somebody) it’s “Sofa so good”. Marvellous. Even if we’ve not had the floor finished as we’d have liked, it’s a major step forward.