New sofa for a new engagement…yay! :)
Wednesday, February 1st, 2006
Our wine leather sofa was delivered via a furniture lift through the living room window on the second floor! (British staircases are way too narrow for huge American furniture). The sofa is very comfy and looks almost exactly like my brother’s. We’re now looking for some pillows and a coffee table. Buying things on the British economy is not cheap, so mainly we’ve been going to the military base exchange. Matt has a whole month off from work after returning from his deployment so we are shopping up a storm and watching all the episodes of Friends on my laptop DVD. We don’t have a TV over here because we’re too cheap to pay the ridiculous "TV tax" of 120 pounds (about $200) per year, which pays for BBC1 (a non-commercial news channel) and three other channels. Maybe we’ll protest the "taxation without representation" by throwing TVs into the imaginary Bury harbor!
