No new flat, but a new gym

First of all  - an update on yesterday's flat buying scheme.  The purchase has fallen through as the vendor is not willing to budge on price at all. He says that he has already reduced the price to get a sale and won't discount it any further. as the previous reduction was well before we even viewed the flat it doesn't really have any import on our offer. anyway we are unable to go to the full price, especially considering the current market, and have backed out. Whilst being disappointed we know that there will be another place that we like, and as we are in no hurry we are content for things to take their course...

And now... Yesterday a parcel arrived that we had been waiting on. It was a new cat gym for the boys, all the way from Germany via E-Bay. Their old cat gym was more than a little frayed at the edges and was in need of renewing. Happily it is their favourite scratch place, meaning that they leave the furniture scratch-free. 

Having opened the box and taken out all the pieces it was clear we could just have bought the box the parts came in as the cats immediately decided that it too was a great toy. As the gym  was made in Germany the instructions came in German, with an interesting English translation, and full diagram, which really was not of great help.

However, I managed to fix it all up quite quickly with just one error, and even incorporated some parts of the old gym, the bits the cats used most.

It's already taken a bit of a hammering as they've bounced all over it and scratched (as they should). any bets on how long this one will last?