Bah! Humbug!

[boatman]

Yaaayyy! Got my vacuum sorted (£65 for a new battery pack) and my central heating and hot water is also working (I'm sure I saw a glint in the plumber's eye when he saw the old boiler he had to take out. Methinks he'll be looking at the Antiques Roadshow for a valuation). Now for the first time in my life I have hot water on demand instead of having to switch on either an immersion heater (remember those?) or a boiler. B****y wonderful!

Good news about the toaster too - it seems to be working properly now!

Now I've just got to take my car into the garage on Monday to fix a 'clonking' noise from the back end (hopefully just one of those rubber strap things holding the exhaust) and find out why the dashboard warning light about my battery/alternator came on yesterday.:sad:

PS Still not won the lottery.

PPS Oh Gods!! Just checked the Shropshire Model site and they're saying that Cosford will not run again this year due to Covid regs. That was at the end of November last year. Has anyone got any more up-to-date info now the Covid regs have changed?

HI Dave glad to hear your luck is changeing for the better
chris

[Gern]

HI Dave glad to hear your luck is changeing for the better
chris

Gotta wait for the bill from the garage before I can work out how much 'better' my luck has got Chris.

[boatman]

Gotta wait for the bill from the garage before I can work out how much 'better' my luck has got Chris.

OH WELL Dave there is always a downside isnt there no matter how lucky you feel but jen an i hope you are on the way up for the better
chris

[Airborne01]

Dave,
Your tale(s) of woe remind me of a classic C&W song called (I think) 'Things Have Gone To Pieces' - can't remember the singer though! As my mother used to say "Worse things happen at sea!", mind you if you had much more ill-luck your ship would be well on the way to becoming a dive site! Good luck for the rest of the year mate! :face-with-head-bandage:
Steve

[Tim Marlow]

Blimey Dave, you’re still going through it mate! On the flip side though, you’ll appreciate the little wins all the more when you eventually get them, and hopefully you won’t have to wait too long :thumb2:

[Jim R]

Hi Dave
Well things are going in the right direction. Just hope the garage bill is not too bad, something simple like you say.
Jim

[Guest]

Dave, I will not add our new house vicissitudes: they are on the same line of yours and Peter's, but of a lesser magnitude (only because we do not live there, yet...).
Plumbers, electricians, decorators are a worldwide spread spawn with a completely personal view on calendars, quality standards and bills... :angry:.
Hope your share of bad luck for 2022 has already been depleted.

Andrea

Andrea I was pleased to see you didn't include joiners and other wood butchers:smiling3:
In my working life I found plumbers to be the most frustrating people ever , always late, always going to the supplier. I evening managed to tame one , that took years !

[spanner570]

Dave, good to read all is well once more.

Perhaps the clonking was big boxes you left in the boot after our last visit to Cosford?

Speaking of which, that's a blow - No Cosford, again!

[stillp]

Glad to see some good news from you Dave. Hope the clonk is something simplecheap. Simple doesn't necessarily equate to cheap!
Good-ish news here too. We had the heating system converted from vented to pressurised on Mondy and one of the TRVs replaced - made no difference, we still had two rads not getting hot. The company sent a different Heating Engineer (he gets upset if he's called a plumber) yesterday. He dismantled all the TRVs and changed some setting inside them, which has stopped all except one chattering. He also managed to use the system pressure to blow a lump of sludge out of the inlet pipe (8mm microbore) to one rad, and we now seem to have heat in all the rads for the first time in months! Don't know how long that'll last.

Yes, shame about Cosford. Wonder if any of the other shows will go ahead. Southwell would be nice, or St Ives, or Coventry, or, come to think of it, practically anywhere!

Pete

[eddiesolo]

You thought about hibernating Dave? Jeez mate, that is a lot of bad luck. I would send you positive vibes but, they don't seem to be working for me and I think, you have had enough mishaps. Keep well and safe.

P.S I can relate to the cat, mine is trying to do me in also. :tongue-out3: