Fractal Blog

Having done Australia Day we next proceeded to Ikea for the basics, so that in the future we wouldn't have an excuse for eating out in the pub. This involved striking just the right balance between buying essential items (crockery, cutlery, and an outside table and chairs) without buying any unnecessary duplicates. After all, our sea freight will arrive in three to four weeks. We hope.

As usual Ikea has just the right price-to-quality ratio for this sort of thing. We obtained acceptable cutlery very cheaply, and some crockery that we like so much we're contemplating going back and buying a whole set. It's arguably nicer than the crockery in our sea freight.

A small table with two chairs to put on the balcony, bought elsewhere, completed the requirements. We now have the means to sit on the balcony overlooking the harbour which, combined with the air mattress we bought, is all the absolutely essential furniture. We're very happy that, unusually for Australia, our rented flat comes with all the white goods. Exceptionally good-quality white goods at that. Otherwise we'd have had to buy a fridge-freezer and a washing machine as well.

In case anyone is wondering what the picture of Solar Sailor has to do with this blog entry, the answer is "nothing". But the program that generates the page layout of this blog requires a photograph to go with the first paragraph and I can't be bothered to change that. Anyway, it's a good photograph, isn't it?