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Hey, is there any chance that anyone has or knows anyone who has a futon or old sofa bed going quite cheaply for sale in London or can deliver to Hackney in the next day or so? Basically Amp has broken her leg in two places - pretty fucking serious - and needs to come and stay with me for a bit cos my flat is all on one level whereas hers has loads of stairs and stuff.
Unfortunately not 2 days ago I threw out my old futon mattress as "no-one stays with me anymore so there's no point in taking up all that room storing it". Nice one.
So, trying to be pro-active here, if you have one going cheap or know of someone who does can you let me know on lisa.payne@gmail.com asap as you'll be doing me a huge favour. I can't drive though so collection and shiz is out for me, and I don't know anyone who can drive and Mum and Dad are on holiday as is little sis, but could probably pay for some kind of delivery or ask around friends who may have cars and stuff. Locating some kinda futon or sofa bed is the first priority though.
please tell amp i send my love and hope that she's not i too much pain.
with regard to the bed sitch - let me know how you get on. i know i'm not exactly local but i have a fold up double bed that you could certainly borrow. if you get really stuck, i'm sure i could persuade j to drive us both down there with it for you.
alternatvely, if you want to buy something, it might be worth checking out the argos website as i'm sure they'll do this kind of stuf cheaply and they deliver too.
also, for amp -
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UT, I think I have a double futon in my loft. However like you I have no transport. If you can arrange someone with a car who can collect from Balham you can borrow it if you want.
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Yeah argos are the cheapest and they deliver, I have discovered in recent investigations of argos v.s ikea - but some things are not in stock all the time.
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Also, where do you live? Was it Stokey or something? We have a van today and tommorrow for house moving purposes. We have a pretty tight schedule of moving us today (Belsize Park - Kentish Town), an friend this evening (Finsbury Park - Stoke Newington), delivering a freezer to Westborne Grove tommorrow morning, then going to Ikea then back to Kentish town, then getting the van back in time (plus cleaning the old flat!).
BUT if you find a futon or something and need transport that is not miles and miles out of that plan then let me know.
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We have a futon mattress which you can have - if you also collected Gemini's at the same time I reckon it would make a reet comfy bed (I find one futon is a bit too much like sleeping on the floor).
quote:Originally posted by ally: There was an Observer article about householders swapping or giving away free unwanted furniture. It's called "freecycling" apparently.
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hello everyone, thanks for offers and suggestions on sofa bed things, I will explore them all more thoroughly tomorrow. I'm just back from the hospital as of course my sister couldn't break her leg in London, O NO! Middle of a field in Haywards Heath, with a semi-famous rock star (who was unscathed but whom I have deemed "not fit to look after my sister again due to not taking adequate care of her"), airlifted by helicopter to hospital in the middle of nowhere. Result: me travelling to middle of nowhere hospital to see poor sister.
She had an operation to put a metal rod in her leg this afternoon / evening and was in lots of pain but basically ok (e.g alive and demanding a snack box as they were trying to starve her to death and this morphine and gas and air is no big whup and where did all the nice nurses go?!) when I left her.
Personally I think something odd is going on - kovacs with a metal face, London with a metal leg, who's going to be next? Be very careful everyone, I think we're being picked off one by one to become a future cyborg race or something!
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good to hear she is ok - though curious what she was doing to break her leg in middle of field with semi famous rock star
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quote:Originally posted by Uber Trick: I dunno, when you say "semi-hard" do you mean "not hard at all"?
TMO is generating much lols today. By which I mean - "Lol"... he said contributing much to the thread.
As broken leg incidents go, London's sounds pretty wicked. Helicopters, iron rods, rock stars. Not since Hendrix smashed his femur in a Himalayan whore avalanche whilst gigging atop Mt. Godwin-Austin with Joplin has leg breaking been so fucking cooel!
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also! oobs - i was trying to provoke you into revealing the identity of said rock star:
"not famous? i suppose you don't think bono out of u2 / lemmy out of motorhead / h who used to be in steps is famous? eh, omikin? eh? you fucking halfwit!!!"
you know, something along those lines.
instead of which you goaded me into admitting erectile dysfunction. what a depressing turn of events.
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Uber - I'd be very grateful if you could pass on my sympathy and best wishes to your sister, London. Hope she gets better soon. Posts: 8657
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She had gone for a country walk with her friend Eamon from British Pee Shower, er, I mean, British Sea Power whilst taking mushrooms. Some kind of early Spring Equinox ritual perhaps? Anyway, Eamon, in his infinite wisdom decided it would be fun to climb a tree. Amp didn't want to but allowed herself to be coerced. They were up there for a while and then during the descent Amp she asked him to help her down, to which he replied "No, you can do it on your own, you'll be fine."
Cue falling, Amp hearing the snapping of her own leg bone, leg flopping around painfully and very wrong. Eamon getting all excited "Oooo you'll have to hop over the field to get to a main road!" Er, No. So he phones for an ambulance - thank fuck for mobile phones - "Oooooo you're going in a HELICOPTER. How EXCITING!" and along comes the helicopter to whisk her away. No room for semi-famous rock stars though.
She is in so much pain and it's all awful. I just want to get her home so I can look after her properly
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Send her a GET WELL SOON rah and remind her of the episode of Corrie where Les raided the drugs trolley.
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I will do Ben and VP, I also passed on well wishes from people yesterday too which made her smile.
The hospital has a phone and television beside the bed and apparently for a while they had internet too but it "wasn't compatible with their system" so they took it away again. It would be cool to have the internet in hospital though.
quote:Originally posted by Uber Trick: allowed herself to be coerced
Kinky.
News of a new BSP alm bun has improved my day by a factor of 10. Unfortunately, it won't be available in time for us to listen to it in the 'delivery suite' - so far I've packed:
Radiator - Super Furries
Soft Bulletin - Flaming Lips
Stephen Malkmus - Stephen Malkmus
When D's sister was stuck at home with a bust ankle, the best present/distraction for her was a box set of a tv series - a whole day's viewing rather than just a couple of hours. Maybe The Singing Detective or other small-screen classics? 24 or the first series of Shameless?
quote:Originally posted by dang65: [[Quiet voice]Have British Sea Power actually done any records, by the way?[/Quiet voice] [/QB]
[also whispering] Yes, but they're really fucking depressing . I mean more depressing than the combined forces of Nick Cave and Joy Division. Or perhaps just not as good . My fairy goth brother would have given his eye teeth to break his leg whilst on mushrooms with a member of the band though, and would probably dispute what I just said. [/also whispering]
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