As The Workhouse Approaches....How To Do Everything To Avoid It, the Old Style Way

Molly41

Yes hold the start button down until the key light goes off. Will take 30 seconds so longer than you think. Also if you vary the pressure you have to start over. Hope that helps.

icelandic_queen

Congrats Sammy-kaye:beer:!!! Any luck Ceridwen?

flowertotmum

Afternoon all...hi to all the lovely newbies...
Ceridwen..has it worked? i had to get an engineer out to mine when it locked..lol..slightly embarrassed me watched him as he just pressed button and bingo the door popped open..
Have had a bit of a moral dilema today..the lady who sadly passed away last week..her son came to see me this morning very early..and offered me her brand new suite..dilema..really could do with it but feel a bit bad about taking her stuff..she not been passed away long...anyway had a chat with him and his lovely wife ..they wanted it to go to someone who would appreciate it...so had a think and well i have a lovely new suite in my living room..i have gone from shabby chic to posh in a morning.I am really grateful for it too my old sofa was about done in tbh.They also have offered me a wardrobe and some curtains..think i will take them as you never know..just feel a bit bad about going round to fetch them...her son told me they either go to you or the tip..
Done loads of roasties and yorkies plus stuffing with sunday dinner,freeze them all later for in the week...i love my roasties lol..
Annie glad you have a new pal..shanni sounds a lovely name.Some folks don't deserve pets..glad she has found new home with you,monty and lucy.
Right off to polish shoes and iron uniforms..
love
ftm

GreyQueen

C'mon, Ceridwen, the nation's OS folk (and not forgetting the overseas contigent) are waiting with bated breath; is the washer sorted? Me being an ignorant non-parent, I never knew they had childproof locks, although it is sensible. Scared now that my Bosch has got one and won't let me into it when the load running has finished.

It's a funny old day here in Provincial City, cooler, fresher and cloudier than it has been for ages but a bunch of constipated clouds up there chucking out the odd spit of rain but nothing near a proper shower, even. I was up on the lottie until a while ago and decided that I'd re-edge my grass paths to make the place look a bit tidier.

It's unreal. I had to use, and I kid you not, a 10 lb lump hammer to drive the sticks holding my garden line (a linen line) into the ground, then I tried to use my nice sharp-edged spade which goes thru most things like a knife thru butter. No dice. Had to get the blimming mattock out to chisel the conctrete-y soil away to re-establish where the path ends and the veggie patch begins.

I watered more of the strawbs with ex-bathwater and spotted a small grey something or other resting over the centre of one of the bigger plants. It was a small verminous thing with a very short tail, only about 1 cm (the tail), and was very dead. Would that be a shrew or a vole? Bit concerned about it carking it in my strawbs but then I remembered something about these little wotsits living at 1,000 mph and dropping dead of heart failure. There wasn't a mark on it so I assume it wasn't one of the lotties' cats, who are housecats from across the street who have a very big territory. One of them left me a gift early one summer's morning a coupla years ago; dead rat on my lottie "patio". It's the thought that counts.

I'd like you to join with me in apologising to my fridge, Mr Beko, for forgetting his 11th birthday yesterday. We don't want him to take umbrage and fail on me. Also, I am sad to report the passing of a fave shirt, much-loved and much-mended, whose cloth has given up the ghost and ripped clean across. Shirt is being laundered, de-buttoned and will be cut up for rags later today. I dunno, that's a pair of knicks, a pair of PJs and now a shirt which will enter the rag pile in a single week. Rotten cotton, eh?! :rotfl:

((Hope everyone is having a great Sunday))

Nargleblast

Just dropping by to say congratulations to Sammikaye about the new house, it sounds like an ideal family home, and with a decent set of neighbours, too, what more could you ask for? Hope you all have many happy years there.

And welcome to Annie56's new member of the menagerie, the dog's owner turning up has brought closure to the whole thing and means Shanni is really and truly yours. So glad life is good for you, I remember only a year or so ago everything was in turmoil when you started posting, but things worked out right in the end.

Good news is always welcome in these difficult times.

ceridwen

TudorRose wrote: »

I have the same machine & have just found the instruction booklet.

The following is the quote from said booklet about the childlock.

ON/OFF: After the programme starts/ends press Start/Pause for approx 5 seconds.
Note: Childproof lock may remain activated until the next programme starts, even after the machine has been switched off!
Then deactivate the childproof lock before the programme starts and, if required, re-activate after the programme starts.

I hope this is a help. Have never used the childlock as I live on my own. Never knew it had one actually untilI read your post.

Thanks all.

Machine now working away - and note made of Bosch manuals weblink. Someone ITRW spotted I had obviously "been in a panic" when I pushed button and inadvertently activated that darn childlock. Its now working as normal thankfully.

I had a large-ish unwelcome (cant say 'twas unexpected that there was a Life Shock - just didnt know what it would be and the timing of it ....but I knew a "shadow was looming" of some description) shock to the system at the beginning of the day. It threw me into the "collywobbles" - mucked up washing machine, mucked up several other things. Its down to my philosophy of "Dear ceridwen - so what that you've just had a 'shock to the system'. Life to be lived - so get on with it. Reach for backbone of steel and stiff upper lip and things need doing - so DO them ceridwen....".

Errr.....stiff upper lips and steel backbones sometimes go a bit astray to me "making mistakes and muck-ups" if I've had an upset. Must make allowances for self needing few hours to "get back to normal" when Life Strikes - then get back to what I intended to be doing before it Struck:cool:.

ceridwen

littlecal wrote: »

Sammy - I'm sooooo pleased for you :beer:

Oh yes....little MSE party coming up methinks on the day Sammy moves in:D:beer:. Fortunately our Sammy had a "shiny shadow" coming up on her horizon - so 'twas likely this would be a home:D

BitterAndTwisted

HOORAY FOR SAMMY_KAYE!

Darling, I'm so very happy for you and reading your post brought a tear to my eye.
I KNEW lighting candles would work! I've been lighting one every single day for you
but if it's all right with you I shall continue the lighting but for someone else on this thread
who sounds like they could do with a lucky break as well.

There's been so much to be happy about catching up with a week's worth of posts:

I've been offered some work at last so will be able to pay those utility bills
which come around again MUCH too quickly.
Annie and Monty have acquired a doggy
and the lovely and kind Mardatha has been an absolute sweetie.

Is it just me or is life looking up?

ceridwen

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

HOORAY FOR SAMMY_KAYE!

Darling, I'm so very happy for you and reading your post brought a tear to my eye.
I KNEW lighting candles would work! I've been lighting one every single day for you
but if it's all right with you I shall continue the lighting but for someone else on this thread
who sounds like they could do with a lucky break as well.

There's been so much to be happy about catching up with a week's worth of posts:

I've been offered some work at last so will be able to pay those utility bills
which come around again MUCH too quickly.
Annie and Monty have acquired a doggy
and the lovely and kind Mardatha has been an absolute sweetie.

Is it just me or is life looking up?

Theres certainly been some "bright spots" recently in the thread - so 'tis all good when peeps get good news:D and nice for the rest of us (gives us some hope that "our turn will come").

I'm sure there are a lot of us who could do with a bit of "candle power" - so all candles welcome for those in this category. Must admit that any spare "candle power" would be welcome in my own direction. My own centres very specifically round "If there was enough money (err....and we're not talking just a FEW £s unfortunately:( - then I could buy my way out of a lot of hassle). Make that - could and would...

I see nothing wrong personally in throwing cash at a problem if cash on its own will be enough to solve it...goes off thinking "If Americans light green candles (ie green for dollars) - then what colour does that mean for British peeps?" Thinks - have I got any gold ones?:think:..vague memory of gold star ones somewhere....

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and - Bitter and Twisted - congrats on getting some work

ceridwen

Actually

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at a practical level.....what do peeps think about an MSE Candle Power List?

Obviously - I'm aware of various peeps who need "a bit of help" besides myself/more than myself....

Hmmm....maybe a "Light in the Darkness" List?

Maybe those feeling in need of "some light" could add their name to a Candle List and those of us who feel so moved could have a list by their own personal MSE Candle and just spare a few moments thought regularly for those on the List.

Well - there are prayer lists for those in need of specifically medical help. So - whatever help is needed in the case of those of us who would like some "help" to solve an apparently intractable problem (be it health, relationship or money-oriented in nature) could request adding to the List. They neednt give details as to why if that feels too personal (some peeps are okay about doing so/some arent).

Is that a useful thought for consideration?