London - Furious at a furniture store for failing to deliver a bed ordered in July, a mother took her three-year-old daughter and made herself at home in the store itself, taking over a bedroom suite.

The 30-year-old hung up clothes in a wardrobe, then snuggled down with her daughter in a nearby bed and read her a story. It took half an hour for the store manager to react, it was reported Saturday.

"I just wanted to see what my daughter's things looked like hung up in a wardrobe and what it feels like to sleep in a bed again," said the mother. The store's failure to deliver had meant she had to sleep on the floor at home.

A spokesperson for the store in Cambridge, eastern England, was quoted by the Daily Mirror newspaper as apologising and saying every effort would be made to speed up the delivery. (dpa)