Today is Sam's sixth birthday and he's now all grown up and sensible*. Last week he cunningly made a list of everything he would like to receive as presents on his birthday so that we wouldn't forget anything. What was nice was that the list started with "a tree" and then "a wheelbarrow" and it wasn't until you got to the bottom and it read "violent death trap exterminator robot from planet hell" that you realised that actually he is a normal boy and not a weird hippy after all.
Anyway, I managed to find a wheelbarrow - a Yeominis miniwheelbarrow, "ideal for mini garden helpers", and also (significantly) "easy to assemble". "Easy to assemble" usually means that assembling it is easy and it perfectly described exactly what this wheelbarrow wasn't. It took me over an hour to assemble in the end. The holes weren't lined up properly and I needed two different spanners and a screwdriver to do it. Being the grumpy old man that I am these days I fired off a "disappointed" email to Yeominis to complain about their "easy to assemble" labelling.
Another of Sam's presents was a Megatron. A Megatron is a Transformer that transforms from a robot into a tank. Except that the tank that it transforms into is actually a very strange tank because it has a pair of robot feet sticking out of the back. And why is that? It's because Hasbro (who make it) appear to have a faulty assembly line that sticks Megatrons feet on back to front meaning that they can't fold into the recess where they are meant to be tucked away into. Had I been sensible and done a bit of internet research before buying it I might have known this beforehand but I didn't so I didn't. Off went another angry email, this time to Hasbro to compain about backwards robot feet.
* Ha!
