Helping one of my flatmates to move in yesterday afternoon has left my muscles aching today. It was all the usual stuff: boxes, shelves, lamps, furniture – and a Risograph. This monstrous device was extremely heavy – I’m prepared to believe it literally weighed a ton. It took three of us stopping and starting to get it up four flights of stairs to the second floor and I’m suffering for it today. On the plus side, we now have a Riso in the flat so can print subversive literature like old skool Communist revolutionaries. Or photograph body parts when drunk.
Moving the sofa up the small stairwell was equally entertaining, although fortunately we didn’t quite achieve what would have been an Only Fools and Horses style comedy classic by dropping it over the second floor balcony as we tried to balance it at an angle in order to get it through the not-quite-large-enough front door of the flat. Having succeeded, we celebrated with mulled wine and mince pies, and then a cash machine at London Bridge rather inconvenienced me my gobbling my bank card like a Christmas turkey. They told me 4-5 working days to replace it, so some time in 2007…
Don’t forget that Doctor Who and the Runaway Bride is on tomorrow evening (BBC One at 7pm) and may Santa bring you the capitalist material possessions you so desperately desire 🙂
And incidentally, a Happy Christmas to all of you at home.
Which model Riso?
An RN2000. Are you going to tell me that’s a light one?
It’s not one I’m familiar with – but I’ve only ever had to heft GRs, and even then only one flight of stairs. But the new MZ is a “four man lift” – always interesting on a narrow stair case.