Had a little retail therapy in a local GC this morning. Came back with 4 bright pink cyclamen for the kitchen windowsill box, a pk of blue dwarf iris ditto and a bag of alpine grit. Also enjoyed coffee and cake and a natter with a friend.
I've just been watching the Rugby World Cup. Seeing some of the Tonga players with tears pouring down their faces when attempting to sing their National Anthem shows just how much representing their country means to so many players. Unfortunately there are some, predominantly footballers from what I've seen and read over the years, who think representing their country is more of a nuisance than an honour.
I find it weirdly therapeutic tweezing bent grass out of the middle of perennials - especially when I come across a really long, bushy one. Even though it's exactly the same process, tweezing out wild strawberries is a PITA.
Today's RTBC. I had a new fitted oven delivered - at 7am!! That was almost good, because I'd been waiting for two weeks. But . . . . When I ordered it, I was ASSURED that it would be a DIRECT replacement for the old one - same width, height, depth, etc. I found out that it WAS the same width (phew). It was the same height (double phew). It was the same depth? Ah, no!? The oven is actually 2cm deeper - and an offending gas pipe was in the way. No installation. Old oven reinstalled. New one returned. One very unhappy person. Old oven broken.
So, what now?
I phoned round local repairers, and one said he'd take a look. Turned up within the hour. "Sorry sir", it's an old element. Rummage through the van, and FOUND ONE!!
Subsequently repaired before the wife came in. Cost was a fraction of the new oven. Money for the wrong sized new oven is being refunded .
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Even though it's exactly the same process, tweezing out wild strawberries is a PITA.
I had a new fitted oven delivered - at 7am!!
That was almost good, because I'd been waiting for two weeks.
But . . . .
When I ordered it, I was ASSURED that it would be a DIRECT replacement for the old one - same width, height, depth, etc.
I found out that it WAS the same width (phew).
It was the same height (double phew).
It was the same depth? Ah, no!? The oven is actually 2cm deeper - and an offending gas pipe was in the way.
No installation. Old oven reinstalled. New one returned.
One very unhappy person. Old oven broken.
So, what now?
I phoned round local repairers, and one said he'd take a look. Turned up within the hour.
"Sorry sir", it's an old element. Rummage through the van, and FOUND ONE!!
Subsequently repaired before the wife came in. Cost was a fraction of the new oven. Money for the wrong sized new oven is being refunded .
A good RTBC.
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