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[ladymuck]

Morning all

Cloudy but occasional beams of sunlight coming through. Currently 19 degrees ('feels like' 23) with a high of 27 expected. Barometer up to 1018 mBar.

Sunrise 05:45; Sunset 20:25 BST

The landlady is coming round today. There's a tree in the alley behind my garden that's been trying to push the wall over and she's getting it removed. That and some other tinkerings being done in lieu of properly fixing the guttering on the roof (as that requires the flat upstairs to also contribute).

[NickFitz]

New washer-dryer should be here a week on Friday! A fancy (and rather expensive) Miele, no less

Oh FFS, they've rescheduled it to the Tuesday after because they need to get one sent over from Germany!

You would have thought the famously efficient Germans could get it on a lorry some time in the next week, but apparently not

That's my first day back at work too

[DoctorStrangelove]

Just wait until you experience the joy of getting the fecker fixed when it goes wrong. .

Oh.

Yup.

That was about the length of time it took to get the part.

Though when it failed again several weeks later it took the same amount of time for the chap to come & fix the fecking thing by putting the connector back on properly as it did get the part.

By which time I'd bought a 2nd washing machine to save washing shirts in the fecking bath.

The 2nd washing machine was cheaper than the extended warranty on the Miele.

When it goes wrong again & it's out of warranty it'll be off to the scrapyard.

[NickFitz]

It's been a productive morning, by my relatively low standards

First I went over to see if I could get a haircut. She turned out to be there, her husband/partner/whatever not having died of his cancer yet; a medical marvel apparently, having lasted longer on whatever he's being treated with than any other patient his specialists have treated

I was able to get the second-nearest available parking spot on the main road (not actually that main), which saves a lot of faffing about with residents' parking schemes on the side roads. And when I went in, there was nobody ahead of me so I was straight into the chair! I had thought of going quite early, but she said she'd had non-stop customers until a few minutes before I arrived, so I turned out to have timed it just right

After that, onwards to Big Sainsbury's as I was on that side of the river. I didn't need much, but I was able to get a few things that had been either out of stock or just not stocked at all at the Not-as-Big one last week

And so home, where the preferred parking space was pristine and untouched, awaiting my return

[NickFitz]

Just wait until you experience the joy of getting the fecker fixed when it goes wrong. .

Oh.

Yup.

That was about the length of time it took to get the part.

I'm just hoping it won't go wrong

[WTFH]

I'm just hoping it won't go wrong

Our Miele WM is, I think, 18 years old. The MiL's old machine is about 25 years old. Neither have missed a beat, and both have had a lot of dog stuff and beach towels through them

[NickFitz]

Lunch, BTW, has been a Pukka steak slice

Still very cloudy out

[NickFitz]

Just wait until you experience the joy of getting the fecker fixed when it goes wrong. .

Oh.

Yup.

That was about the length of time it took to get the part.

Nice pali!

[ladymuck]

Car shenanigans.

Yesterday morning, when I left for the office, the engine management light came on.

Yesterday afternoon, the garage called to say they had gotten the dates wrong and could the weld on my exhaust be done on Wednesday (instead of Monday). I was driving home at the time and hadn't gotten around to checking what the light was on the dashboard.

On getting home I realised it was an important light and quickly called the garage before they closed to ask them to check it out on Wednesday.

At around 4 am this morning, while lying awake, I realised that I'm at a wedding on Wednesday.

This morning I called the garage to explain that it was my turn to get dates wrong but ended up leaving a voicemail. On not hearing back from them by lunchtime, I made a quick call to check if said voicemail had been received (it hadn't).

The exhaust repair is now booked in for Tuesday and they told me to run the car over this afternoon so they can plug it in and see what the fault is.

Fortunately, it's just a temperature sensor warning on the exhaust and there's no point checking that further until after it's been repaired on Tuesday.

[ladymuck]

Nice pali!

WNFS