Traditional Russian Spoon Stopper

Yesterday evening after having send off the last emails, I was really looking forward to go to bed. Although my bed has been thrown away and the matrasses are already in Italy, I had an alternative. Something if you are into camping ... you will know; the air mattress! Nothing wrong with this, so after a quick shower I started to get some air in it with my rather sore leg, thanks to my knee. The pump I was easily was clearly something that you buy one time and than throw away. A plastic, light weight thing, that when you starting pumping it slides all across the room and obviously the tube pops out every 5 seconds. But after having spend 30 minutes to get some air in my future bed, I was ready to close it off with a plastic air stopper that is attached to it...eh was. Damn, no stopper!

This is kind of a challenge, sleeping on a airbed without a stopper. I started to search the house, like a McGyver on fire but when you move from one place to another your house tends to be...rather empty. Everything I found was either to big (evian bottle) or to small (some nails) or completely useless (coffee machine). But than my eye got a hold of the traditional wooden cups from Russia. MMMM, cups have spoons MMMMM, I started to search for the spoon and as I rightly thought, even in traditional Russia they have spoons. I picked what looked to me like the most appropriate size and pushed the end of the spoon in as the alternative air stopper.
Fantastic, it fitted like a glove. I could know started to think about sleeping, I just needed to get into the bed without putting to much weight on it. Oufff, slowly

I sat on the bed, slowly started to lean back and voila, I was laying in the bed that is securely fixed by a traditional Russian wooden spoon. Now I just needed to get up again cos I forget to turn off the lights.
Second attempt, even more scary, ...yes, it worked!.
I guess that when you are really tired everybody has a 7th sense like MacGyver and we can basically fix everything. Sweet dreams.
(photo will follow soon)