So many reasons, but mostly:

Letting agents’ bizarre notions of “luxury”, “spacious” and “habitable by human beings”
IKEA’s inability to realise that the UK has different size mattresses to the rest of Europe, and for their stock control system that suggested a delivery lead time of 150 weeks for a foot stool
Microsoft – for making the cancellation of an Xbox Live account incredibly painful. You can manage everything else online, but to do this simple task you have to ring up and answer a bunch of questions about why you’d want to terminate this important relationship
poodles
BT being BT, thus being incapable of operating a simple online account management system. They have my address and account number wrong, and any attempt to change them is met with a “temporarily unavailable” message (just as it has been for the last six months)
the flammable nature of gas combined with a lack of instructions for our massive oven.

But now we’re in. In a few days we’ll have a lovely big bed, a studio/office type-thing in which doctoring and designing can be merrily done, and a bath. A lovely lovely bath.