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That does seem bizarre @Penny_Forthem. We now have a deal with a chain - similar to Curry's but efficient and capable - where we pay a small monthly fee and they'll repair all our white goods for free. We tell them the problem and if it's obvious, they come with appropriate parts. The hinges on the door of ours have broken twice now and I reckon it's cos the hinges aren't designed for fitted machines with extra weight in the cabinet fronts. When the fridge part of a fridge freezer died it was an irreparable gas leak. No charge for the visit and diagnosis.

I hope your OH is good at dishwashing for the duration.

 

Good afternoon!

It's currently sunny, but so squishy underfoot that gardening isn't going to happen. Pity - but there's plenty to occupy me indoors. And before I start on the latest craft task, I must go and search the far end of the garden for the cat's food dish, which I used for hedgehog kibble last night. The hedgehog got there fairly early on and had a good feed, with the vixen following on later in the night. She ate some pieces of apple, and then decided to try the remaining hedgehog food, which met with her approval - to the extent that she picked up the dish in her teeth and disappeared with it. The camera shows the direction she went, but I've no idea what she was planning to do with the dish!

Hope your dishwasher is back before Christmas, @Penny_Forthem ... we've never had one, so at least that's one bit of modern equipment I don't have to worry about! But the top oven here has a problem. It's very complicated, one of those with multiple functions (microwave, grill, fan & conventional oven). It's also too high for me to use comfortably - but useful when I'm trying to cook things at different temperatures, needing both ovens together. However, it's got a fault with its door catch, so that if it "feels" it's not sufficiently firmly closed, it switches off the heat. No useful warning "beep" or anything - I just find it quietly cooling down, with half-cooked food inside.

 

Sounds a very irritating oven @Liriodendron. I have enjoyed hearing about your hedgehog.

We have bought a 6ft Nordmann tree from the Christmas tree farm. There were lots of trees of different sorts and sizes. It's sitting in a bucket of water outside to re-hydrate before we bring it in.

After that we went to Tesco for the weekly shop then the nearby GC where I bought another box of crackers. They don't sell them in France. They are for my daughter 1 who has invite the family in January when we go back to France.

 

I had one of them @Songbird until he was diagnosed with cancer 4 years ago.
Time became too valuable to wash by hand.
Anyway, wishdosher is on the way home, mended!

 

Good afternoon all. Well it has absolutely hammered down here and at one stage my drive was underwater by about one centimetre. It doesn't sound a lot but when the whole of the drive is underwater it is a rare occurrence. It does make me wonder if the soil under the paving stones is still compacted from the hot spell and is not absorbing the rain water. It does seem to have drained now though.
Lovely to hear about your Mum @Songbird.
I share your frustrations re the white goods @Penny_Forthem and the fact they had to take it away to fix it. Knowing the fault you would have thought they would order the 'bits' to repair it in situ. What a pain! Your tree sounds just the ticket @Busy-Lizzie. @Liriodendron, your story about the vixen and the food bowl reminded me of a tale one of my friends told me she had observed in her garden. She had one of those half coconuts with fat in for her birds which was stolen by a squirrel but as the squirrel grabbed the coconut it flipped up, completely obscuring the squirrel's sight. Did it let go - no, but continued charging round the garden like a mini battering ram providing more entertainment for my friend than anything on TV that night!

 

Going to wish you all a good night and I'll see you in the morning. One of my friends has 'ordered' me to meet him at the petrol station at 09:00 tomorrow so he can make sure my tyres are properly inflated. Secretly I am delighted as my arthritic hand was finding locking the foot pump onto the tyre a tad difficult. Let's just say that there are times when my 'helpless female' act have the desired result!

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Im sorry to hear that. I didn’t know. I’ve deleted that post.

 

Evening everybody, really pleased to report that my Sis had her minor heart procedure today and all is well, it's now beating normally and she's back home. She and five others were very well looked after in the specialist heart hospital in Leicester. She now has to wait of course to see if the corrected heart beat is going to be permanently fixed.

Apart from worrying all day about her, I've had a very nice day as we had a sunshiney, dry and reasonably warm day. Did the first bit of gardening in weeks, so really happy and got my bark mulch down on the new 3 rose bed - had to do a hour's weeding first though, it's full of brown and extremely tiny allium bulbs, think rice grain size! An absolute pain to get rid off.

Sorry you've had such bad weather Obelix, Ladybird4 and Liriodendron.

What a fiasco @Penny_Forthem, are they going to come back to install the mended machine?
Do hope so, they're rather heavy to shift.

Really enjoyed Shetland last night @Ladybird4, but it's still confusing.

 

@ songbird, no worries, m'dear you weren't to know. He's defied the odds since then, so fingers crossed.
It's back, loaded and working.

 

That's good news, @lizzie27. I hope your sister's heart will stay OK now.

It rained all afternoon here. I've been doing Christmas cards.

 

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Hello all. I received lots of lovely pics of my new great niece Eleanor early this morning so my day definitely started with lots of smiles. Great news about your sis @lizzie27. Fingers crossed her heart now settles to regular beating. Yes, I too am still confused with Shetland but have really started to enjoy it now. Good to read that it is all smiles in the @Penny_Forthem household with the re-installation of the wish dosher! Like @Busy-Lizzie, I made a start on my Christmas cards yesterday. Another Christmas meal today with the Quizzers.

 

I managed to take a picture of the super moon last night. The Cold Moon.

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It only seems a week or two since the last full moon here and both very bright when the cloud clears. We finally had some decent sun break thru yesterday pm so, whilst communing with the chooks, I pruned the top growth off my Lambton Park which covers the mesh fence next to the hen shed and started on a scented white flowered one on the veg plot fence. No idea what it is as it's not what the label said. However, it's vigorous and the buzzers love it so it can stay.

Patchwork homework for me this morning then lunch and a trip to Luçon for our Covid jabs. It will be very wet this pm so probably hibernating with a tartiflette for dinner as we have some Reblochon to use up.

Pleasing news from your sister @lizzie27. Hope the fix lasts. Good to get some gardening done too.

Good news for you too @Penny_Forthem. They're so much more efficient than husbands - cleaner and less water and fewer breakages in my experience.

Have a lovely day everyone, whatever the weather or your plans.

 

Good morning all.

We had an early appointment at the recycling centre, got rid of the buddleia tree that fell in storm Claudia and all the stuff that wouldn't fit in the garden bin or the compost bin. The garden bin should be emptied today too.

Heavy frost this morning.

We are going to Peter Beales Classic Roses to see how they've pruned their rambling roses. My Chevy Chase, which is only 2 or 3 years old, is going rampant. Before we went back to France I saw a small pink flower on it so there must be a sucker somewhere. When we came back to Norfolk it was covered in its normal little red flowers. It has grown a big thick stem but I don't know if it's a genuine one or a sucker. I've taken photos incase one of the rose experts is there.