Sometimes even sensible people act like they're on crack

Now I suanter into my office on Monday with an air of expectanat curiosity. See, over the weekend we got new furniture. I like our old furniture, it was BIG and DARK and REAL WOOD and had GRAVITAS....

Buit it had also seen many many many years of extensive use and there comes a time when furniture crosses from looking old and traditional to looking merely ragged and tatty. And hey, even a lawyer's office needs a change some time. There was talk of modernisation but I trusted them to be sensible and looked forward to the new shinies.

I was being very very silly, wasn't I?

For I walke dinot my office and saw.... Chrome. Chrome and glass and plastic everywhere. And there are no straight edges, it's all weird and unnatural curves. It looks like modern art by an artist obsessed with lava lamps. All the wood is MDF trying to be ultra-pale pine.

It looks like a "worst of Ikea" show room. It has as much gravitas as a Children's TV presenter. It has as much class and style as Elton John. It has all the dignity of Big Brother. It is beyond vile.

Sparky is not pleased.