Dishwasher repair man day. Exciting eh? The little things in life. Did without one for the first twenty six years of my life. Doubt we could fit one in our kitchen at home when I were a lad. Reality is it hasn’t been a huge chore not having a working dishwasher. Just what you are used to I guess.
There is an element of washing your dishes as you go along being a good thing. Not when it comes to Christmas Day though where the dishwasher works overtime all day coping with the large breakfast serving and several lunch crockery washes.
It is eight thirty. I have ninety minutes to get ready for said dishwasher repair man. Shower, shave etc. Not that I particularly need to look good for him. It’s what I do anyway 🙂
Had to switch off the wireless set during breakfast. Full of USA election stuff. Politics. There must be a programme somewhere at breakfast time that talks about something I like. A good documentary.
So now I’m sat in the front room waiting for him to come. Mark I think his name was/is. Could be wrong. He will forever be dishwasher repair man to me. As long as he can fix it. Otherwise it’s a trip to Currys or wherever you buy these things. Can’t really get excited at the prospect. It’s only a bleedin dishwasher for goodness sake (other forms of language optional).
I remember we were in Currys once a few years ago buying a telly. Hadn’t bought one for a very long time so I stood there staring at all the tech specs. How on earth do you choose? I sought assistance and was pointed at “old Reg” or some similar name. He was the expert on TVs.
I asked old Reg how I should go about deciding on which box to buy but all he did was read the features out aloud. I could do that meself. Reg knew bugger all about TVs really. Probably knew all the programmes. That must be what the other sales assistant meant.
Anyway we bought a telly. That TV is fairly old now. Not a “smart TV” but doesn’t really matter as it has a Chromecast plugged in to it. The telly in the shed is a posh one but that also had a Chromecast and Roku, both now replaced with a new Google TV Streamer. The streamer fixed the fact that I couldn’t cast Discovery + programmes onto the telly. In fact it has the Discovery + app. Only issue with it is that the streamer has a very limited range of audio options. One of them plays through 7 speakers so that is fine but the amp can do much more than that. Maybe it’s a setting somewhere. Probs.
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THG has returned from the market to take over the waiting for the repair man to arrive. She won’t be sat in the window doing an Eleanor Rigby, nosirree bob.
STOP PRESS – DRM arrived at 10.51 BST. Fingers crossed eh?
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Well DRM did the biz. Twas a blocked pipe near the sink. Hadn’t even realised they were linked. Good money in the dishwasher repair game. £92!
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Swim swum. Anne’s car refuelled. Full tank of gas and ready for the road. Not that we are going anywhere. Tonight it’s Liverpool v Leipzig, or similar. Away. On the telly.