1) What's the 1st thing you do on Christmas Eve morning when you get up and you know that
you have guests coming to stay in all your spare rooms? You strip the beds. So that's what we did. What's the 1st thing you do once you've stripped all the beds in your house? You put a load of washing on, that's what. What happens though, if you turn the washing machine switch round to select the right program and it goes, click, click, click....spin? Well first you twiddle it a bit, then you push it a bit, then you switch it all off and then on again. Then you phone your sister for moral support, as you take the top off the damn thing. Then you work out how to take the front off - click click - then you realise that the bit that turns the mechanism around to select the program is a piece of plastic that has snapped? (See picture) Well then you phone your wonderful local repair guy who comes out on Christmas Eve afternoon and fixes the washing machine for the grand total of £42. How wonderful is that? For reference....his name is Steve Burton and he lives in Tingley.Disaster no 2 was later on that evening, after work....
2) I was just laying the table and moving the glass place mats to get the candl
es in the right places, when I happened to touch a glass oil bottle with the stack of glass mats...then THIS happened - it must have been made out of safety glass because it actually broke into little 'cubes' of glass (no shards) but about a million of them. All over the table, floor, and generally EVERYWHERE!Our third and final "nearly disaster" was a mega one
3) Michelle and Conrad were en-route down to Leeds, and were just about at Stirling (an hour
into their journey) when the oil light came on in the car. They kept trying to convince themselves that all was OK with the vehicle, but it kept making stranger and stranger noises, and in the end, they stopped and called a recovery van to come and take them back to Errol. It could have been disaster - but they're not the kind of people to be put off by a leaking car and a chilly 2 hour wait by the side of the road, no, they got back to the house, had a cup of tea, got in the other car, and headed back south - and so at 10:45 on Christmas Eve, they arrived after 10 hours of travelling, tired, but still on good form! We had a fabby curry (which we made the night before) saw in Christmas Day at midnight and ended up going to bed at about 1:30am!
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