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Popping out to the new IKEA store in Edmonton. If we're not back by dinner time send a search party.
UPDATE: So, IKEA Edmonton. Perhaps as a consequence of the opening night stampede, there is security standing around everywhere. A bit too late maybe?
And the store takes up a much larger area of other IKEAs in Greater London, but the stock is obviously the same. You therefore walk through bedroom after bedroom thinking "Where have I seen this bed before?", the answer being "Five minutes and fifteen bedrooms ago".
And you have to pay one pound for parking. IKEA policy to save the environment by discouraging people to drive there, apparently. And how exactly are you supposed to bring back a whole flat-packed kitchen on number 34, prithee?
As usual, the unwritten universal rule of the reverse IKEA shopping list was respected: we went shopping for:
- hooks,
- a washing up bowl,
- material to upholster an armchair,
- bed linen, and
- a 20W lightbulb,
and came back instead with:
- 18-piece dinner plates set,
- 4 glasses,
- 1 vanilla scented candle,
- 3 wooden spoons, and
- 1 bathroom mirror shelf.