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We felt things moving along and even though we had our bed, a bed Elly chose<br />

without me, it was time for the floors to go down. I had managed to convince an<br />

Opel, Vauxhall to the Brits, dealer to let me test drive a car on the vague<br />

understanding that I was the country manager of an English firm who might<br />

have been looking to rent a fleet of cars for his staff. It wasn’t exactly honest<br />

but feeling guilty about conning a car salesman was like worrying about feeling<br />

a pretentious cunt while watching a French film on your iPad.<br />

<strong>The</strong> battle plan was simple, buy all the stuff we needed before I had to return<br />

the car then actually start doing some work. We had already done the hard part<br />

of choosing between the greyish white, dark red, yellow, dirty yellow and all the<br />

other stupid colours of floor panels we could buy, choosing the mahogany. <strong>The</strong><br />

panels slid in through the boot, over the back seat that had been let down and in<br />

between the seats in the front of the car. It was riding low to the ground and<br />

when it scraped the floor going over speed bumps I was thankful it wasn’t really<br />

my own car.<br />

It did the job though and after several trips for various things including paint,<br />

underlay and tools we retired it as a delivery vehicle and took ourselves off to<br />

scope out kitchens. We priced up several kitchens at various retailers and even<br />

wholesalers. <strong>The</strong>y were either in our budget and shite or what we wanted and<br />

expensive. <strong>The</strong> installation was going to cost nearly as much as the units so we

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