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[NickFitz]

Tea has been chicken tikka masala out of the freezer, with rice and naan

It was OK, but I think I prefer the madras

This was accompanied by The Crash Detectives on iPlayer, which was a fatal after the relative respite of the last couple of episodes

[NickFitz]

Lunch: a couple of leftover spicy chicken thighs from the other night

[xoggoth]

A whole 5 today going up to 10 tonight. Would be good if not for 100% heavy rain. Monday meetup has been moved to Tuesday when I 've got me arty thing, so nowt to do for 2 days, apart from drink at village club maybe. Mostly just me and me puppet parrot.

[ladymuck]

Morning all

Dull and overcast. Currently 4 degrees ('feels like' -0) with a high of 8 expected. Rain forecast. Barometer down to 1016 mBar.

I guess -0 means it's feeling colder than 0 but not quite -1.

Sunrise 08:03; Sunset 16:16 GMT

Off to see Mum today. Decided I shan't bother taking the duvet cover with me. I don't need it washed today.

[WTFH]

Morning all
raining and windy out, but I can’t delay the walk any longer.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Morning.

Sunday.

Wet.

Drizzly.

Chilly in here at 11.2 deg, 9 in the kitchen, 8 in the leanto, 7.5 in the saltinghouse.

1006 mBar, 29.71 in Hg, 754.6 Torr, 14.59 psi, (down from 1014 last night), 60% RH (Lidl electric).

Meanwhile on the 11th of March 2020 things were becomming inneresting, covbob thanked me for recommending "Survivors (1975)", which, it turned out, NF had bought a couple of years previously, LondonManc popped in, LM was dissatisfied with the canteen lunch, and WTFH was disappointed with the count of eggs. Oh, and there was a limit on the number of tins of corned beef you could buy in Morrisons. The shape of things to come. .

Power cut sometime during the night: woke me up when the boiler woke itself up on the power coming back on.

Washing frenzy in progress.

Lunch: brunch. Entertainment: avoiding smashing stuff with a hammer.

The TD excelled itself in random number generation: from 6 minutes left to 55 minutes left when the actual programme starts at 43 minutes when you turn the fecker on. .

Shirts met the iRon and are airing upstairs.

Still waiting on the TD, after which the remaining smalls will go in, no doubt taking 15 times as long as might reasonably be expected.

It there was a cup or so out of the TD last week, there'll be a gallon out this week.

Now getting outside a cup of mediocre yet consistent coffee whilst attempting to stay calm and not press the sledge hammer into use. . Om. Fecking Om. Om. It's not fecking working. Om. Om. Om.

In other news, after the washing frenzy, the saltinghouse has now reached the heights of 14 deg and is, indeed, warmer than it is in here where it's 12.7.

Walk (unabbreviated, towpath) walked in the grey gloom. Rained for the last 3/4 of a mile.

Entertainment: Cold War Spies. E1. Tina Turner ZZ Top Legs cover.

Tea: beans on toast with scrambled egg. Entertainment: Progress E2. This sounded almost exactly what I listened to last week. .

Last 20 minutes of "Sunset Boulevard (1950)": Norma Desmond "the films got smaller".

Westerns on Sky Arts. (again).

Sergeant Cork. S2 E7 "The case of the self made man".

[NickFitz]

Morning denizens

It’s a grey start after a night which got a little warmer, being below zero before midnight but rising to 2°C now - and this will continue into tonight, with 6° by sunset and the forecast high of 10° not expected until 23:00! There may be a shower or two this afternoon and some more steady rain this evening. The barometers have gone back down to 1001/1009mB

[NickFitz]

There was some wildlife stuff on today which was supplemented with Planet Earth III

And this evening, I suspended reading of The Confessions of Samuel Pepys once I’d got to the point I’m currently at in the diaries. No spoilers for me!

So then I started reading Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

Goodnight all

[ladymuck]

Just in time bed making done.

Landlady reckon the WM switch is under the sink. I think she's confused power with plumbing. But I'll take a look in the morning.

[ladymuck]

I got some little air wedges that you pump up manually to raise mine so I could get sliders in, but that was for getting it in not pulling it out. But maybe raising at at the side of the front would also lift the back foot on the same side? It also depends on how much space there is above it, of course

Is there anything in the manual about a door release? If not, maybe you can find a service manual online by searching for the model number or something.

Thanks, will take a look. That might just do the trick. I only need to be able to raise it a smidge to get the sliders under.

I don't know what the model is other than it's an Indesit. The specific model is on a label inside the door! There is no manual.

I usually hunt down manuals when they're missing but all I seem to have done is obtain a print out of the details of each washing cycle. A basic search has revealed that many Indesit manuals don't mention anything about opening the door manually.

One tip I've read is to take something like fishing wire and sort of wrap it around the door to get it into the lock mechanism. Will have a rummage in the garage when I'm at Mum's tomorrow to see if there's anything suitable I can try.

I think I'll take the duvet cover down with me tomorrow and use Mum's WM and dryer so at least that part gets cleaned.

[NickFitz]

Tea was brought to me from the Turkish place, mainly because I needed to order something from them by Monday to get a voucher for £8 off

[NickFitz]

I've been looking at sliders but they seem to assume you're able to tilt the WM to get them under it; something I don't have room to do.

A video on YouTube helped me get the panel at the bottom open but there's no door release catch there.

I got some little air wedges that you pump up manually to raise mine so I could get sliders in, but that was for getting it in not pulling it out. But maybe raising at at the side of the front would also lift the back foot on the same side? It also depends on how much space there is above it, of course

Is there anything in the manual about a door release? If not, maybe you can find a service manual online by searching for the model number or something.

[ladymuck]

My washing machine turned out to be plugged in to a socket lurking at the back of a cupboard, down near ground level. I couldn’t work out where it was for ages because it was concealed by the stuff in the cupboard!

Washing up liquid is good for lubricating the feet to slide it out. You can get smooth plastic boards that go under the feet and can be used to drag it out, but the question then is how to get them under there. If I ever have my kitchen redone, I’m going to insist that the washer-dryer isn’t boxed in - it’s a pain

Oh, and there’s almost certainly a manual release for the door; they're usually hidden away behind a flap or something, somewhere down the bottom of the front

I've been looking at sliders but they seem to assume you're able to tilt the WM to get them under it; something I don't have room to do.

A video on YouTube helped me get the panel at the bottom open but there's no door release catch there.

[NickFitz]

Laundering of the bed linen hasn't gone well. I thought the WM was a bit quiet but I hadn't heard it beep. When I went to check, all its lights were flashing and the on/off button didn't do anything. Although it looks like the cycle was complete, it won't release the door lock.

A quick squizz at the manual says I need to turn the machine off at the mains, wait a couple of minutes and turn it back on. If the error doesn't clear then it needs a repair person to attend. There are five fused switches in the kitchen, two of which are located in a position I'd consider sensible as a means of controlling the WM power. None turn it off. This makes me think the switch is behind the WM and I'll have to work out how to pull it out of the cupboard. This would be easy if I could get the door open!

Now on the hunt for some contraption that can slip under the WM and do some kind of lift and slide manoeuvre so I'm not dragging it across the floor. There's got to be something that runs on bearings.

My washing machine turned out to be plugged in to a socket lurking at the back of a cupboard, down near ground level. I couldn’t work out where it was for ages because it was concealed by the stuff in the cupboard!

Washing up liquid is good for lubricating the feet to slide it out. You can get smooth plastic boards that go under the feet and can be used to drag it out, but the question then is how to get them under there. If I ever have my kitchen redone, I’m going to insist that the washer-dryer isn’t boxed in - it’s a pain

Oh, and there’s almost certainly a manual release for the door; they're usually hidden away behind a flap or something, somewhere down the bottom of the front

[NickFitz]

Lunch: pâté on toast