Desko Fever

Our job last night was to build a number of desks for a local centre which the community will be able to use. Sounds straightforward? That's what we thought, until we saw the pile of panels and screws...and no instructions.

Luckily there were five of us there to crack the puzzle, including Nick who came along for his first mission - welcome Nick!

We got cracking, building the desks in different rooms. The largest one got done pretty quickly, and then we moved on to the smaller ones, with their special 'modesty' panel. That's where it got slightly more complicated. Luckily Lorna drew on her previous Crystal Maze experience (she didn't get locked in this time though), while Clare put her recent yoga expertise into good practice under the tables screwing in panels, while Nick and I used our Scrubs' knowledge to start assembling ('lefty loosey, righty tighty'). We all struggled with the assembly and after thinking we had finished, realised we had put on both the legs and the table top backwards. Cut to Frances in the next room, who had done two whole desks perfectly on her own. She had definitely already got her Ikea badge.