"Andy Burns" wrote in message
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tim... wrote:

only 4 (and a bit) weeks to wait now though don't go on day 1. The Q
will be mega

The queue at the nottingham store was mega for *weeks* after lockdown1,
several times I drove into the car park, turned round and went straight
back out.

We've been waiting a year to order various bookcases from Ikea, to be
delivered. We had a couple of wardrobes delivered just before lockdown
began, but since then they've not been accepting orders that require a
two-man delivery, because of social-distancing rules.

One day, when the initial excitement has died down, we'll go over the Ikea
(a fair journey from near Scarborough to the Ikea south of Leeds) to look
around, buy things that are small enough to fit in the car and arrange for
delivery of the big things like bookcases. For long things that will fit in
the car, we need to remember to use my car rather than my wife's because
although hers is bigger and longer, the back seats are split the wrong way
round (ie two on the driver's side, one on the passenger side) so if my wife
has to sit in the back because things extend into the front seat, then we
can only get things that are narrow enough to go through a *single* width
gap in the rear-seat back-rest. My car has the split the opposite way round
so we can get wider long things through a wider gap, with less room for my
wife alongside - done that in the past.


Part of the problem with the Leeds Ikea is that the car park is one-way, so
you have to go around a fairly long circuit. So if you join the queue,
you're stuck for a long time before you can turn round.