Timing - it's all in the timing...
Nearly a week ago I heard that the woman who chairs our Toddler group is moving back to Canada at the end of March/beginning of April. (I did explain to her that we require her to work out at least 3 years’ notice, but somehow she wasn’t that impressed… ) Then a couple of days later, she sent round an email offering various household goods for sale – including a washing machine. Now this washing machine is basically the same as our current one, except much younger, and with a few more functions. And our current one has been showing signs of getting rather elderly. So I jumped up and down and said “Oooh, yes please, don’t sell it to anyone else, we’re very very interested.” She reminded me that she’ll need it until the end of March, and I felt very happy with myself as I was sure our current machine would last another 10 weeks.
But oh. It turns out that I am overly optimistic, and my rose-tinted spectacles have been shattered 
Tuesday morning I put a load in the machine, turned it on… and the house went dark and silent. I turned off the machine, John reset the circuit breaker, the house came back to life. I turned the machine on again. Dark again – not good. Machine off, circuit breaker on. John then went to check the computer (which had been turned on during all this) only to discover that the UPS was being annoying. Hence the explanation I made to my father later that day – “The washing machine has broken down, so the computer isn’t working.” I tell you, that was a looooooong Tuesday with no access to the cyberworld.
Anyway, back to the washing machine – our favourite electrician came round this morning (he comes when he says he will, he does the work that’s necessary – no more, no less, and if he thinks it’s not worth fixing, he says so… ) – and it’s the bearings, and it would cost about as much to repair as the second hand one will cost us, and it’s not worth fixing anyway as it’s probably damaged more stuff on the way.
We only needed ANOTHER TEN WEEKS! I’m totally on Pixeldiva’s wavelength here.
In knitting news: I’ve done another sock, but shhh, no pics, I’m saying no more for now. I’m also trying to decide what to do for Yarn Harlot’s Knitting Olympics – I have lots of acrylic left over from Adam’s jumper (and I mean lots) I might use it to knit charity jumpers for Feed the Children – I just need to decide how many. Oh, decisions, decisions.
Arrrghhh – just seen the time – I need to go and make lunch, and then go to work.
four comments:
It is comforting to read about the daily ups and downs of another mother who thinks about chocolate the same way as I do!The Hapy Housewife () (link) - 19 January '06 - 16:40
Oh no. A poorly washing machine is VERY bad news indeed. I hope you get it/something sorted quickly (a friend of mine had to spend six months washing all her clothes in the bath!)Daisy () (link) - 19 January '06 - 19:18
So sorry! My water heater exploded a week ago (no joke: it was spraying water in our garage and we had to water pressure for several days). We ended up having to replace it entirely since it was beyond repair. Imagine my joy when I turned on the shower the day after we got the new heater to discover the water was the color of rust- and shortly thereafter- thick pasty liquid rust began pouring through the spigot.Now that I’ve thoroughly depressed you
, I should warn you that something is coming in the mail for you. Something that will reverse your house appliance depression, hopefully
Your SP7 (link) - 20 January '06 - 07:20
We blew the motor in our washer some time before Xmas. Bad scene, but at least we are tenants and it was really the landlady’s problem. I just had to stay glued to the new machine for days to get all the backlog cleared!I’m spreading the idea of a Cambridge Olympic casting-on party! No idea where yet.
Mary de B () (link) - 20 January '06 - 08:54
