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[NickFitz]

For lunch: Scotch broth out of the freezer, with some wholemeal bread

Currently trying to persuade myself to walk into town. One of my hearing aids has developed a couple of cracks running from the corners of the battery compartment, rather like metal fatigue around the window of a de Havilland Comet causing it to break up in flight, so I need to go to Specsavers to see about getting it fixed. But the problem is that I'm lazy and can't be bothered

[NickFitz]

But the problem is that I'm lazy and can't be bothered

I eventually found the motivation to get walking by reminding myself that I had a Waterstones gift card I received at Christmas to use

One of my hearing aids has developed a couple of cracks running from the corners of the battery compartment, rather like metal fatigue around the window of a de Havilland Comet causing it to break up in flight, so I need to go to Specsavers to see about getting it fixed.

And of course it turns out that damage to The Shell is excluded from the manufacturer's warranty

They'll send it to said manufacturer, who will assess the damage and decide if it's covered or not. So I ended up using the Comet line, pointing out that the cracks run from opposite corners of the battery compartment door along lines of the shell where the plastic seems to be at its thinnest due to being on sharply angled curves. My theory is that a misaligned hinge might be causing a strain on the shell when the door is opened and closed (which is how you turn it off and on), similar to the Comet fuselage failing due to thermal expansion and contraction causing metal fatigue spreading from the corners of windows and doors.

They said they'd attach a note pointing out the damage has spread from the corners in that manner. I doubt this will help much, but you never know. If it doesn't, it's something like £170 to have it fixed

[xoggoth]

pointing out that the cracks run from opposite corners of the battery compartment door...

At least your complaints are nice and specific. I moderate a local Freecycle group and got a message from a user - "can't find it!"

[DoctorStrangelove]

X5 tonight.

No mad old lady on it so I didn't bother coughing.

Cold. 14.4 in the living room, laundry room at 5.3 with a min of 5.

It got a bit colder: 4.6 to be precise.

And it was 13 deg in here when I got home.

[NickFitz]

I eventually found the motivation to get walking by reminding myself that I had a Waterstones gift card I received at Christmas to use

And one of the books I bought was Helene Hanff's 84 Charing Cross Road, which I've just read. Very enjoyable; I think almost all of it is in the film.

It's in a single volume with her following book The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, in which she recounts her visit to London in 1971. So there's that to read too

[DoctorStrangelove]

Excellent!

Will you also be allowed to dive at dawn?

Nope, but this evening's epic epic was "Above Us The Waves(1955)" with John Mills et al.

Above Us the Waves (1955) - IMDb

It rarely ceases to amaze me when I see the courage of these people.

And one of the books I bought was Helene Hanff's 84 Charing Cross Road, which I've just read. Very enjoyable; I think almost all of it is in the film.

It's in a single volume with her following book The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, in which she recounts her visit to London in 1971. So there's that to read too

Good, innit?

Quite moving in its way.

The lack of vampires is rather disappointing though.

TFBSZ.

[NickFitz]

For tea tonight, a delicious pork chop, with chips, peas, and gravy

I am reduced to the NHS hearing aids for watching telly. They aren't as good

Though I could still use the right in-ear one while the left is away, I suppose.

I might just read my book instead, or maybe go for something foreign again so I don't need to hear so well

[vetran]

The burgers don't flip themselves up here you know!

Indeed the spit doesn't get in the coffee on its own.

Don't ask for extra cream with NLyUK working here,

[vetran]

One reason always to keep your coat on the back of your chair, or at least hanging up somewhere directly between your desk and the nearest fire exit

Still, it gets you out for a breath of fresh air, and it's all billable time

we got told off for taking our coffees with us lukewarm coffee in a travel mug.

felt the heat

[NickFitz]

I might just read my book instead

And so it came to pass. The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street is also a very good read

Goodnight all