i just wanna cry :(

southernscouser

jessicamb wrote:

In a true DFW moment Jessica saves the cost of a stamp and removes SS from the Xmas card list

Your loss hun! :cool: :rotfl:

lynsayjane

southernscouser wrote:

No! Just one of my post-lightbulb moment lapses! :rolleyes:

well since i'm going to meadowhall on saturday i feel i may have a few of them to post about next week :rolleyes:

jessicamb

lynsayjane wrote:

well since i'm going to meadowhall on saturday i feel i may have a few of them to post about next week :rolleyes:

Lady put the credit card down!

Now!

:eek: :eek: :eek:

(Have a really good time and bring us back something nice )

lynsayjane

jessicamb wrote:

Lady put the credit card down!

Now!

no i don't think i can do that! :rotfl:

to be fair i've decided if i do see summit i like then i shall allow myself a treat, within reason. i recently put four bin bags of clothes to the charity shop after trying on everything i owned having lost weight. i've had to scrape the bottom o the wardrobe to find enough nice tops to last me and i'm only away a long weekend!

but in true dfw style i shall be searching for bargains and weighing up want and need! oh my familys gonna hate me!

Rallya

If you cant open the door yourself and dont have anyone you can ask nearby check out your local yellow pages for a local electricity/washing maching shop, one thats owned by a sole trader etc

When my parents machine went on the blink they did this and only paid £10 call out charge which included an inspection for the problem which they then fixed themselves cheaply.

Just a suggestion, at least you could use the engineer to get your door open so you can get your washing out, then just forget about it and go have a great holiday

Dumbledore55

You're not on your own Lynsayjane........I'm in charge of over 100 staff, manage budgets, welfare issues, performance you name it but when things go wrong at home I just want to blub!!

Don't know if its because I'm a single mum or what but I just can't cope with things falling apart on me.

Came home the other week and couldn't get in my house, the door handle just went round and round and didn't turn the latch. Went round the back and for the first time ever, I'd left the key in the lock so couldn't use the back door key.

Phoned every locksmith I could find but no......England were playing so they were in the pub or already had a few......do they know any Scottish locksmiths I asked......no.

OK - no option but to smash a pane of glass in the back door to get the key....can I break it??? No...everything bounces off.

Ex turns up with son after match has finished....feel pathetic asking him to help me smash the window but I was mightily relieved he couldn't do it either.

Borrow a hammer from a neighbour and finally shatter the glass.

£275 to repair a 1 foot by 2 foot window.....B*****DS - saw me coming!!

Front door handle still not working - Everest are telling me it'll cost £150 to repair IF they can get the right handle. Call out a 'Window Doctor' who after being rude to me because I was 3 minutes late home having taken time off work to be in for him, just waltzes off saying 'I can't do anything and neither will Everest'

Buy a handle off E-Bay....can't for the life of me work out if its the right type or how to fit it!!

I could just sit down and sob..............no family around at all to help me and probably the only option is going to be a new door........how I wish I was good at DIY or at least I had better luck!!

Going to calm myself down and then look at my options. I think the handle only needs two new bolts but the door is old and my local ironmonger says I need 3/16 whitworth thread bolts - trawled E-Bay but no joy...........any ideas for a solution and I'll be eternally grateful

lynsayjane

i got the washign out last night toots, the handle is still duff but the emergency is over, my darling daddy, whom i love very much (:)) is sheltering me for a night on my way home next week, then bringing me back to aberdeen, there he will ifnd a list of things i'm too useless to manage myself, which in reality isn't much. i just tiled my kitchen last week and started goruting, but ran out so i'll pick up some more next week. i can do most things in the flat myself, have never paid anyone to come here yet, even when i got locked out, broke into my flat myself three times in a month (don't ask loooooooong story) doing no permenant damage!

southernscouser

Dumbledore55 wrote:

OK - no option but to smash a pane of glass in the back door to get the key....can I break it??? No...everything bounces off.

Ex turns up with son after match has finished....feel pathetic asking him to help me smash the window but I was mightily relieved he couldn't do it either.

I know this isn't much help now and I hope you don't need to do it in the future but the corners are the weakest part of a window!

lynsayjane

dumbledore is it one of these funcy upvc jobs or a traditional wooden one? if you had someone who could house sit breifly i'd take the shole thing out (lock and handle) and take that to the locksmiths or even bnq, i know they'd be more expensive but have a big selection. if the back doors fixed i'd maybe use that for a whie till you can afford to fix it. new doors ain't too expensive, but being an outside door its harder an indoor one you could get for £15 ro so. i'd try a local timber centre for a door. i have one two minutes from mine and spent the past five years trawling to bnq for bits of wood thinkin it was a trade only place, my latest ex (a builder, most handy) took me in one day and its definatly not. we got a fab bargain of barrat homes doors that weren't needed (they changed the style they used) for a fiver each so they may have good prices on outdoor doors too!

woah thats a big speech.

hold your head up tho darlin. i can't say i fall apart every time summit goes wrong, i'm usually a silver lining kinda gal, was just having a bad day. yesterday! hope you get the door sorted tho!

Dumbledore55

It looks UPVC to me but Everest say that from their records its aluminium and 21 years old - a previous occupant had it fitted.

They say that I shouldn't be surprised i can't get a new handle after all its 21 years old - nothing wrong with the door, just the handle!

I try to be positive about things but I've been suffering from depression and I find its the little things that tip me over the edge. I know my reaction is disproportionate but I can't seem to control it and yet at work, no one knows I've any problems and they all think I'm totally together and sort out everyone else's problems! I am using the back door but silly things worry me like what if there's a fire in the kitchen, the front door is an escape route and I can't use it.

Silly, I know as my windows all open but I get so frustrated that I can't sort my own problems as well as I do everyone elses. I've spent all this evening helping my best friend to sort out her debts and as soon as I've done that, my phone is ringing...another friend going through a marital crisis....I should be pleased that at least I can afford the payments on my debts and being single my home life is uncomplicated.....