The new bed has landed!

We're very excited about this. This is the first proper bed we have ever owned! For the last 6 years we have been sleeping on a metal-framed futon sofa-bed which has been gradually giving way underneath us for the last couple of years ... the small of my back was gradually disappearing into a well created by the metal slats which kept falling off the bottom, and it has not been doing wonders for my lower back pain... So for a long while we have been trying to save up for a new bed, and not getting very far, since we're never very successful at trying to save up for anything. But an hour and a half's user-testing for the ridiculously well-endowed Golden Web Foundation earned me enough to buy a kingsize oak bed from the Futon Company, which arrived today! Being a boy, K likes taking things apart and putting things together, so he got straight down to the business of dismantling the old bed, and mantling the new one (as it were).

Out with the old!

In with the new! (which is somewhat bigger...)

Turns out the old futon mattress doesn't fit perfectly...

Clean sheets. There's something so scrummy and cosy about getting into bed when the sheets have just been changed. We have tried out the bed, which is perfectly flat and hard, and not a sag in sight... We rewarded ourselves by going down to Brixton Market for a celebratory pizza at the wonderful Franco Manca. And hopefully K will get an excellent night's sleep before his run tomorrow... Have you sponsored him yet?