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Sunday, 27 January 2019

Everything's Going Wrong!

I feel as if I'm trapped in a little vortex of things going wrong.
  • My boiler, which I only had serviced before Christmas, & which recently came out of it's 5 year guarantee, keeps losing pressure & stopping. (Typical "Sods Law"). The plumber replaced something very expensive the first time & keeps coming out & saying there is nothing wrong with it, but there is no evidence of a leak anywhere. Plumbers are not cheap.
  • My TV suddenly decided that BBC1 & 2 were not available after I did a channel update. I updated again & fortunately BBC miraculously returned.
  • Another TV suddenly stopped being smart. I also managed to sort that out. Obviously I'm smarter than TV's.
  • A loo is leaking from the cistern into the pan. You can't just replace the washer. You have to replace the whole part at a ridiculous cost. Then I have to get a man out when the part comes.
  • Another loo has supposedly stainless steel caps on the seat fixing which have discoloured a lot,(I discovered the cleaner was using Harpic to clean the whole loo!) So I had to replace the whole unit. Again at a ridiculous cost. However I did learn how to dismantle the loo seat - I'm quite proud of that.
  • My 3 year old Wi Fi printer just told me it was "in an error state". It just didn't tell me what the error was! That was a costly call out too.
I'm now wondering what else can go wrong. I'm already on double my quota of 3 & January isn't over yet.

The thing is I'm lucky, I can afford to get someone in to fix the things I can't. It isn't really about money. It's more the time, effort & stress. A single life does have it's advantages, but I do miss having a husband who would:-
     a) Probably have understood how all of these things work.
     b) Probably had a clue what was wrong.
     c) Also probably been able to fix them.

Before you dismiss me as some lame woman, I did:-
     a) Look up the instruction manuals, neatly filed ready for such
        emergencies.
     b) Google what to do in each case - Don't you just love YouTube?
     c) Check all the radiators, floors & ceilings etc for signs of a leak.

I will never understand plumbing or WiFi though.

In 10 years of widowhood I have learnt patience & the utter pointlessness of worry. But all of this is getting me down quite a bit, particularly the boiler. I didn't get much sleep last night at the thought that there could be a leak somewhere in the house causing the loss of pressure. The fact that the pumbers don't seem to be able to fix it doesn't help. They are coming again tomorrow.
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