Drive-by soft furnishing

There's no money about. Two new, expensive-looking velvet sofas have appeared in the fire exit corridor.

"What are those sofas for?"

I asked Seth. Hopefully. (I had visions of us being able to spend the day sitting comfortably in the corridor waiting for the fire alarm to go off).

"It's for that new reading thing," he said.

We've got funding for a reading programme. So we've bought two sofas.