How to dismantle a sofa....

Our NEW sofa was due to arrive on Friday ....which left us with a small dilemma, what to do with the OLD one?  Even the furniture project people wouldn't have wanted it; 12 years old and pee'd on by kids and cats over the years, ground in food and full of rubbish...SO...we decided to take it to bits!

It took a total of 5 hours of very hard work...in 28 degrees !  But we managed it!

Flatford Mill - 24th July 2012

As the weather had stopped doing the "rain thing" briefly we decided to take full advantage and drive to Flatford Mill to go boating and have a picnic.

As we readied ourselves, gathering egg sarnies and a flask of tea, Joanne rang to find out what we were up to.  She had a rare day off so she came too!

We had enormous fun rowing the boat up and down the river...its quite tricky , and we got stuck on a sand bank for a while and then stuck on an underwater tree?

Joanne stayed on the bank, dozing on the tarpaulin in the shade of one of the beautiful pollarded trees that are dotted along the bank...she was rudely awoken by a large heffer chewing on the tarp...wish we'd witnessed that!