My gripe at the moment is about fridge freezer repair (or lack of it). Our freezer started to make a loud noise, which stopped if you opened the freezer door. It took 10 days to get an engineer out the noise was from an internal circulation fan when he came he could not really find a fault as the noise went away after he took the casing off. !0 min after he left the noise started again so I went back to them they said they would have to order parts. Another 10 days on the noise is continuous I rang again (more hanging in a queue). The new date is next Wednesday the noise is driving us mad even with the Kitchen door closed we can hear it all over the house.
I had a freezer that did that. It was due to a condenser outlet tube being blocked so the condensed water couldn't drain out and it kept pooling and then freezing and blocking the fan. Once the fan stopped the ice got worse and cracked the lining of the freezer. It was out of warantee but I managed to get a partial refund luckily after trading standards gave me some useful advice.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
@Hostafan1 I think he handled that very calmly. I definitely wouldn't have kept that cool, then again being afraid of heights, probably wouldn't have been up there in the first place.
@Lyn Could it be statistics on deaths in car seats? Not long after our little girl was born, I remember hearing someone taking a 4 hour drive to the children hospital and their baby (only a few weeks old) died in the car seat. Of course at that age, anything is panned out as 'sudden infant death syndrome'. Truly very horrific. I agree @wild edges that few babies will sit in a car for over 2 hours though.
My fridge freezer , freezer bit was getting too warm last week when the heatwave started. I couldn't understand it, it is only 22 years old. Really annoying alarm scream. I emptied the freezer part and there was a bit of ice. I poured a kettle of boiling water on it and thought that would sort it. Anyhow it appears that at the back under a panel where the fan is, There is a section I couldn't get at , totally blocked with ice. I had to shove the food in the other freezers (don't ask) and wait for it all to defrost. Being a lazy cow, this was the first defrost proper it has ever had. Well it is supposed to be frost free. It took all day. Judging by the amount of water that soaked into the towels there must have been a really good chunk of ice at the back of the panel. I loaded it up again, switched it on and bingo, working well again. I put a load of plums and apples in, wanged on the superfreeze, and it went down to minus 27 overnight. Now holding back at minus 18 which it what it lives at. Should be good for another 20 years I reckon.
I'm feeling doubly curmudgeonly today. Firstly - those with long memories may recall we had a very long saga with a leaky roof, buckets, cloths, repair attempts and finally a new Velux and complete renewal of the front of the roof, just over a year ago. Now... yes, you've guessed, we have water coming down the chimney breast... I'll try the roofer we used before, but I suspect he won't answer his phone when he sees who's ringing him...
Second curmudgeonism is lack of rubbish collection at our family's cottage in Scotland. We've been waiting for a commercial bin to be delivered since June... they're out of stock, but we were promised the loan of a domestic bin in the interim. It never materialised, and the long-suffering visitors have had to make an 8-mile round trip with their rubbish to the nearest communal bin. Trouble is, very few of them let us know they have a problem, even though we supply them with a questionnaire to return after their holiday... the council refuse department has now received a less than friendly email, which I'll follow up with a frosty phone call on Monday, I think.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
He's got a really good reputation, @Pauline 7, so to be honest when he doesn't reply it's usually because he's balanced on a roof somewhere... he has more work than he can fit in. Solving a problem he thought was already sorted, probably won't be high on his list of interesting jobs...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
My cosmos xanthos patch has been flowering its socks off for months but I'm getting awful fed up with dead heading. How curmudgeonly is that???
Fuchsias are great for people who don't like dead-heading - the flowers drop of their own accord as soon as they start to fade. So plants don't look tatty.
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Second curmudgeonism is lack of rubbish collection at our family's cottage in Scotland. We've been waiting for a commercial bin to be delivered since June... they're out of stock, but we were promised the loan of a domestic bin in the interim. It never materialised, and the long-suffering visitors have had to make an 8-mile round trip with their rubbish to the nearest communal bin. Trouble is, very few of them let us know they have a problem, even though we supply them with a questionnaire to return after their holiday... the council refuse department has now received a less than friendly email, which I'll follow up with a frosty phone call on Monday, I think.