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  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    @Wildedges, the Retailer, not the manufacturer, are legally obliged and responsible for a full two years under EU consumer protection law, doesn’t matter what the retailers’ stated guarantee is. Little known law that retailers do their best to deny. You need to look up the act and quote chapter and verse. I did that with a large DIY chain and they capitulated in the end.
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    The UK isn't part of the EU anymore though. Hopefully we've kept the law for now though. I know we managed to get a fridge freezer replaced under similar circumstances a few years ago but I can't remember exactly how. That one was terminal though and I assume this just needs something replaced.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    It is until the end of this year @wild edges and I believe one of the first things Theresa May and co did was push thru a law adopting all EU law into British law.   I don't think there have been changes to consumer protection law since then.  No time.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I took the dog for a quick walk last night once the kids were in bed. There was a police car parked at the top of my street by the woods and the sounds of a lot of shouting and activity hidden in the trees including some very drunk sounding girls. I heard a car tearing down the forestry road followed by a loud thump and the sound of a metal pole being sent flying, then several scramblers headed off across the farmland. Just as I was getting home the police car left and a minute afterwards the scramblers came coasting down the road with engines and lights turned off. I'm guessing lockdown is getting boring for some people... :|
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    If you see baby dinosaurs, you may need to cut down on quarantine drinkingđŸ·
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    Oops I did see baby dinos, and I don't drink.  Might be the new medication for my arthritis!!!
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I diagnose a mild dose of stir crazy
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    My wife is doing stir fry for dinner. I've suggested we call it stir crazy instead. I could do with a very long walk :|

    but anyway my Suttons order turned up today and apart from a bizarre substitution of the spring onions it's all there and ready to get growing. Apparently I plant these onions in late summer and harvest next year. Not very handy for summer cooking but we're overrun with chives anyway so they'll have to do instead.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Japanese onions @wild edges?  

    Domestic sort of morning pottering about, making a big red salad to last a few days and fritata for 2 lots of lunch.  Then I decided to give the dogs their spring dose of wormer and tick and flea treatment, cleverly hidden in a tin of sardines in olive oil which is good for their coats.  Rasta doggy managed to lick her way round all 8 small pieces of the flea and tick biscuit!   She'll get them crushed with her arthritis meds in cat food at bedtime - the things we do to keep that dog healthy!

    After lunch I went out and put weedkiller on the gravel area and drive and then headed off to spray the area that will become my new tree and shrub border.  She followed me down the garden and rolled in the newly sprayed grass and weeds!!  Horrid dog!   She's had a bath now and smells like a damp sheep cos she's a woolly bear who's missed her April haircut.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Just went out for a brief walk and saw the car that caused the noises last night. The metal pole noise was the handrail from the bridge being launched into the river after the driver misjudged the turn and/or his driving ability and clipped the support. The car is still there so I guess it did more damage to the car then the bridge.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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