Once upon a time there were 3 little girls?.

Well technically there were only 2 - and interestingly one was sort of in the police academy.....and one once did a 6 month work placement there....anyway I digress...

It's the Jubilee weekend - shall we go to see the concerts in Hyde Park - or the flotilla.....or shall we build flat pack furniture..........

I turned up bright and breezy - well, I turned up - to help my friend Lynn with her new bookcase and table. First thing we did was charge up the camera to get a picture of us prepped and ready to go. Phone was nearby for facebook updates - which I'm sure no one found as funny as we did.

We unpacked all the parts and looked at the instructions to the jigsaw before us. "right, we need the two big bits.......and a few of the little bits" she helpfully announced. Luckily 'Next' had seen fit to use number labels rather than 'big bit', 'little bit' so we were soon off and running.....for about 3 minutes when we realised that you couldn't really salvage a tool box that had been out in the rain so popped to Homebase to buy a new screwdriver set. Imagine our excitement when we found a ratchet one with an extending shaft - you can imagine the sniggers. I then bought a sunlounger - damn you 15% off offers distracting me like that.

Back to mission control to the job in hand. "I think we need to shunt it along and shove the watsit in"....pause for sniggering and a facebook update....then we stood it up and I managed to drag the new bookcase onto my toe...which was nice.

Proud of our efforts we moved onto the new table. Sadly 10 minutes later the novelty had worn off but we kept going and she now has a lovely new bookcase and table! My reward for all my help??? A cup of tea and a Barry Manilow documentary she had recorded for me......watching Barry in his 'Copacabana' outfit made it all worth while.

This is the abridged version.....I think maybe you had to be there.......