Oh Dear,
Now what have I done to deserve THIS? This has been a year for things going wrong. Some serious, like our poor pooch Hannah having a major op. for cancer, but is was very successful and all that is hopefully behind us. But the majority have been what some might term trivial problems. Its the amount of them that is the main problem. Its getting to the point that every time an electrical appliance in the house makes an unusual noise, however breifly, I just start to think "Here we go again!"
Lets see, we had the probs with the PC from the beginning of January. Jim is into writing all his pics to disk and hes becone a bit of an expert at it, so when the burner failed to do just that he started to get a bit hacked off to say the least! After many phone calls and journeys to PC World clutching our rather expensive warranty in our hands. We were told that they couldnt do anything until we had stripped in back to its virgin state, their words , not ours ! So after trying to save what files we could, as the burner didnt work most of the time, we finally had it ready for the engineer. Then we had to wait till one was free from his busy schedule to come out and fit a new one for us. Eureka ! It worked. But the time it took to put all the stuff back in and get it sorted. Well it was worth it in the end, but if they hads changed it when we first said something was wrong we wouldnt have had to wait 4months to have it all sorted out.
In the meantime Kerry and Slava, though already married in Russia, more of that another time, were due to have a church wedding blessing here in the UK. Well 1`d like to report that although weddings are always supposed to have something go wrong on the day. In this case it didnt,not a thing, it was the most perfect day , even the weather, which was glorious! This was the most successful time of the year to date.
My washing machine packed up on me then my ironing board broke whilst I was using it, which was ok because I needed a new one. But then so did my iron give up the ghost. Then the damned Dyson started playing me up and one after the other the appliances starteddropping like flies. Well we got everything sorted and everything seemed fine for a while. When this happens you do seem to be lulled into a false sense of security Then it all happened again, only bigger this time The dratted bathroom! We had our beautiful new bathroom suite on order for only 2 wks when it arrived. We put it in the spare bedroom until it could be fitted by our nephew who is a heating engineer and very good he is too. Well we had to wait for over a month for the fitting but that wasnt the problem. Jim was helping to chisel the wall out for the shower pipes when "BANG" he went through the wall into another room, my office as I call it now has a view straight into the half finished bathroom. The bathroom is half finished because when the bath was fitted and secure I found it had a split in it, just a tiny one, but one that was going to get a lot bigger if left. So once again we are waiting for a new bath. It should be here tomorrow and this one had better be perfect!
Now today we get up to find after a night of heavy rain that water has come in through the outside wall of the spare bedroom. We think that because the bricks are old that they must have become porous so all it needs now is a few days without rain so that Jim can get up a ladder to paint that water repellent stuff for brickwork! Jim is not a happy bunny. He been up and down that ladder so may times this year and hes reckons hes getting too old for it. He has already sealed all the windows with silicone, painted the outside of the house soffit boards, steps and all. So hes hoping this will do the trick or we may have to consult a builder which will probably cost an arm and a leg. Roll on the end of 2004 I say, mind you before that happens we have Christmas first. I`m off now but I`ll be back another time to tell the story of our girls wedding to her Russian! Bye everyone
SANDRA
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