Tidying up

Some people start tidying up as one form procrastination, others stumble into performance art or dancing or stuff or typical German food. I decided to have a look into the things that I always wanted to write a post about, but haven't come around doing it.
Okay, IKEA is a place that is in Brackwede and apparently a popular place as I have bought almost all (well, what shall I say) my furniture there. It had been rated down in 2010. Dare you. They have their own loop bus line numbered "123" traveling from "Brackwede, Kirche" to IKEA and back. In other words, you can't miss it. On a side note, Brackwede is pronounced with a long vowel a. Though, that seems to be quite surprising to most people. In a similar case, Hamburg altered the orthography of all place names ending in -beck to -bek in 1946 simply for conserving the long vowel in the pronunciation. The effect of not doing so can be observed in place names like Lübeck and a bit more local Jöllenbeck. These places are pronounced with a short vowel now. Having mentioned what kind of things people make up, let me say a big breakfast is not any more satisfying over the course of the day than my "ridiculously small portion of porridge" (yes, I am getting myself a camera for filming how I am using a mortar for making porridge oats). Anyway, IKEA experienced problems in selling ad-hoc items, such as baskets, glasses, pillows, covers, candles. More precisely, problems refers to lower growth rates of sales than usual, i.e. German customers buy still buy more useless stuff than before, but less more. Two years ago they were planning their first High Street shop in an effort of competing with their competitor stuff sellers with branches in the city centres. The most recent item on their news blog says they might receive allowance to start works mid this year. For making the point really clear, this shop can be reached without using a car or extensive travel on public services. What a move!
The next item is from 3rd November 2010. From today's perspective, reminds me on pussy riot with their naked protest. The High Street soap selling company Lush was said to having pressed staff into joining the "Go Naked Day". Also, shop assistants were said having been trained to refer to customers' private parts purposefully - and it wasn't like "You want to make a clean and well-kept impression there", apparently it was more aimed at size.
Well, German food. But let me say something nice towards the end of February 2011 (I mean with clearing the backlog): Even you have been a criminal and all that, you can become a star. Really.