Badger Towers

Sat 6th March

After a lightning visit to the house Mrs Badger and I embark on a shopping trip for shower fittings. And possibly new bathroom fittings too. And tiles. By the time we’re out of Wickes we have less idea about what we wanted than when we started the day.

Weirdly in the Oxford branch of UK Bathroom Warehouse shop Dale Winton is on Radio 2 playing retro charts and I’m transported back to 1986, in the same kinds of shop, traipsing around after my parents who were choosing bathrooms.  A Hazy Shade of Winter indeed.

We find a sticking point between what I consider fussy and twee and unnecessary, and what Mrs Badger considers too modern and won’t fit the style of the house/bathroom/rolltop bath.  Unsure how to resolve this we plough on regardless, becoming the sullen couple you see in Homebase who are trying to decorate a house during a protracted argument.

In the end we go to Habitat and coo over the furnishings so we don’t have to think about “sanitaryware” for another minute.  We end up at the pub.

Found today:

That cassette tape was labelled Killa Beez. This means the bed was previously owned by a fan of Wu-Tang Clan who had a pay-as-you-go Cellnet phone and once probably got a detention for not handing in his algebra homework.