Conformarama - Another Disappointment - Monday June 11, 2018


We set the alarm for 08:00 – enough of these lie-ins!

We’d decided that we would work in the morning and then go out in the afternoon. The morning saw Sally rubbing down a door frame and the skirting boards in the kitchen whilst I painted the ‘black’ detailing (metal fixings) on the two shutters I had been painting and then I salvaged a new multi socket extension cable that had ceased to work (it is now a single socket extension that does work). Finally I fitted three more padlocks to the garage doors.

We had a late-ish lunch and were then going to head to Brive to shop at Conformarama, a furniture shop Sally had seen online, and to pop into Carrefour and see what other interesting shops we could see. Checking online, however, showed the Brive Conformarama was closed for refurbishment. So, instead, we headed an extra 20 kilometres north to Limoges to visit the same stores.

Conformarama was disappointing, not inexpensive but rather cheap looking. IKEA is far more our cup of thé – and we’re planning a visit to the Bordeaux IKEA on Wednesday (which the weatherman says will be the best day of our fortnight here).

Quite a haul from Carrefour including a duvet and cover for the new bed (we’d been using our old double-bed duvet), a coffee-machine, electric whisk, small mugs, covers for the electric hob’s hot-plates, door-mat, yet more bolts (you’ll think I am paranoid), fire-resistant paint (I’ll tell you what that is for in another post), and much more.

Back home it was time to scan and translate four letters we’d had from the utility companies. These had arrived after our initial visit to the house, so were rather ‘old’. The electric company wanted a meter reading and the water company wanted a direct-debit authorisation signing – nothing to worry about then.

Its now 8:30pm and I’ve just finished typing up yesterday’s and today’s blog – time for a biere and some nuts, methinks.


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