Hmm, you know when you reckon you've got costs pared back to the bone and might not have to take a job you don't want that would involve you relocating several hundred miles and working out what to do with 28 other lives for which you're responsible in addition to your own?
OK, so the kettle starts by not quite completing the boil - realise there is a wee plastic bit in the stand that has broken so it works but only if you hold it down from part way
Kettle you think, £5-10 ok I can manage and the old one will go to the garage to do poultices and add to mashes..
Don't quite get to the supermarkets due to avoiding unnecessary journeys and not yet having passed near one on such an essential journey - next the 10yo Dyson starts ignoring the sucking up dust part of its job description and you've a few folk coming in the next few days who might not be quite as comfortbale with the hayseeds and welly dirt that is overlaying the usual cathair layer on all carpets
Try and DIY fix it but nothing improves - start to look at online electrical sales prices and realise a new Dyson is the best part of £300 so begin trawling reviews of cheaper products you doubt will be as good while emailing the last person that helped get the Dyson restarted again..
Finally get Scottish Power to remove a redundant off peak meter so you can renegotiate prices with them and alternative providers - while standing by the external meter box, notice a distinct whiff from the drains and resolve to inspect after the electricians leave.. realise that drains need jetting again - an annual occurence when for some reason it gets blocked, possibly dead mouse season or something coming through from the now occupied barn where there used to be a caravan with access to the drain..
Oh yes did I mention the emergency vet visit to an aborting mare, a week before the routine tetanut visit (and without the materials so the 2 visits total £200+ ? And the pony with a foot abscess on a boggy field just 7 weeks after you got that field and now need to move out and bring them home to the barn? And 2 farrier visits to dig/widen the drainage plus 6 other routine trims that total £130 odd?
Back to the drains, you start calling Yellow Pages companies who might also clear a septic tank like Scotloo - except that contrary to the ad they no longer do drains, only the tank and there's little point having an empty tank if nothing gets to it and you've spent £250 so keep phoning and either get a helpline in Edinburgh that can't promise when in the next 3 days (8am-6pm) they might send someone to jet drains, or someone who is supposedly covering Glenrothes and Cupar areas but doesn't come north of that line because it's a franchise so you have to call Dundee but doesn't give a number
Eventually fall back to the not great franchise you've used the last 2-3 times this was necessary, and they tell you they don't cover your area at all - within 5 miles in any direction but not your postcode exactly
Explain they do because they have, and receive a head office polite call that says no franchise now for that area and therefore no service - despite 4 engineers within a 5 mile radius
Stumped you go to get a shower and a cup of tea (holding kettle time included). To discover the shower won't work, the pull cord has died and the light adjacent (twice fixed by electrician with different excuses) surprisingly enough has also gone again.. Wonder how that relates to the power going off for the meter removal that saves me £10 a year - call electrician who is on a job and wants you to call the office in half an hour - do so, they call back 15 mins later to say no chance of a fix til after 3pm..
Great, at least it's today and I don't have to impress animals with my BO - but I do have a haircut and a trip to the library with overdue books at lunchtime
and not only have to go with manky greasy unwashed hair or stick head in bathroom sink - oh yes, it would be great to have a kettle to pour over wouldn't it
Can I go back to bed now? Leaving my broken light, broken shower, broken drains, broken kettle, broken hoover and filthy house uncared for and taking my smelly body somewhere a bit warmer than it is out here where the gales are rattling through the window and my fingers are cold cos my cup of tea isn't hot enough
Maybe I could read a book - after all I'm paying the library on a daily basis til it goes back
Topic: One of those weeks.. (Read 8206 times)
