We started assembling our new sofa yesterday and instead of feet for the sofa IKEA accidentally sent us half a bookcase. It's okay though because we're getting the missing parts in just over a week and we got a very helpful lecture over the phone about how we should have checked all the labels on the boxes as they were delivered.

One thing I miss having moved from the UK to Germany is customer service.

I think it's really sad how some people voted Conservative. Not many, at least, but still. I'll never understand people who look at this government, the last decade of government, and go "yes please more of this".

Voting Tory ought to be massively stigmatised. Like if someone tells you they did, reply as though they've just pulled their finger out their ear and licked it.

I live in a tiny (pop. ~3000) village in Germany and the front page of the latest edition of the village newsletter has a big #Ukraine flag and says we've welcomed 70 Ukrainian refugees. Elsewhere in the newsletter they're inviting them to community events. It's beautiful and everyone seems really proud of themselves.

It's a shame that the UK is missing out, and it's entirely because of their government who have chosen cruelty when people want to be kinder. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/30/ukraine-refugees-are-flocking-to-germany-and-shunning-the-uk