Bargain basement / Adventures in Flat-Pack

A well-thumbed 1990s example of cartoondom from the ‘sale’ basket. I’m shortly to remove cartoons like this from Wibsite.com, but I said that six months ago.

Apologies for a lack of new material today. We have been very busy building flat packed furniture with varied success (Do you say ‘flat packed’ or ‘flat pack’? I’m not sure. And what about hyphens? Flat-pack. Flat-packed. Hmmm.). Our progress has been as follows:

• One flat packed item is still flat and packed because the flat packed furniture company omitted to include one tiny felt whathaveyou without which the item of furniture is inoperable.
• The second flat packed item is just about built, but is in pieces around the house as the space it needs to occupy is taken up by the item it will replace. I have not been able to remove this item from its place as all alternative storage locations are taken by pieces of the more-or-less completed flat-packed furniture item.

It is a complex world in which we live.