article_snippet: I can barely wire a plug without bringing down the National Grid.
article_snippet: So it was with some trepidation that, yesterday morning, I took delivery of an enormous, corpse-heavy cardboard box, dispatched – with typical Teutonic efficiency – from a Berlin factory in just 24 hours.
article_snippet: But even with a set of faultlessly efficient instructions – the poles are all numbered, the instructions straightforward, albeit tedious
article_snippet: In fact, gazing at the 164 poles, all of differing lengths, and 62 connectors, I have not felt quite so fazed since being trounced in the first round of The Krypton Factor in 1992 by a postman from Peterlee.
article_snippet: a postman from Peterlee managed to build a 6ft dice from scratch; I didn’t.
article_snippet: A breezy promotional video shows some Beanie-hatted hipster nonchalantly putting a postman from Peterlee up in just 30 minutes, but it took me two-and-a-quarter hours, slowed by the shaming fact
article_snippet: Guided by the efficient instructions, after 30 minutes the base is almost complete.
article_snippet: I've passed the two-hour mark after muddling my connectors and slicing through a finger.