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Byatt

Help! Dy$on advice please?? I was hoovering away in my cat sitting house as part of my, "having the house look as good as when they left"...and the thing just stopped working. I was using the hose part (which I think is useless btw, having had a Dy$on in the past)...thought maybe it had overheated (afte 5mins???), so left it, then left it some more...and a bit more...tried again and nothing! Not a peep...I have a really bad habit of accidentally damaging things, although in my defence only one thing ( a vase broke) has been completely my fault. What if the d*mn thing is broken?

Possession

Byatt wrote: »

Help! Dy$on advice please?? I was hoovering away in my cat sitting house as part of my, "having the house look as good as when they left"...and the thing just stopped working. I was using the hose part (which I think is useless btw, having had a Dy$on in the past)...thought maybe it had overheated (afte 5mins???), so left it, then left it some more...and a bit more...tried again and nothing! Not a peep...I have a really bad habit of accidentally damaging things, although in my defence only one thing ( a vase broke) has been completely my fault. What if the d*mn thing is broken?

Ooh dear. I don't have a Dyson, but my vac has a reset button, does this? Maybe fuse has gone did any other electrics go, do the lights still work?

Byatt

Talking about the loss of a parent, my dad died in 1992, so quite a while. it was devastating for me, but I won't go into it all now, but just a few weeks ago, they had an advert on in which they played the full version of Little Boxes, can't recall if that's the correct name but it's about little houses looking all the same. My father loved that song, and hearing it again after so many years, had me sobbing in front of the tv, a huge well of emotion. They play it every so often now, can't even remember what the advert is for, but they haven't played it all the way through since. Funny what hits you.

Byatt

Possession, I thought at first it was the electrics but no, everything else is fine, and I'm not sure if the fuse in the plug has gone because I'm not very handy. Not sure about a reset button...but I will check. I am there again tomorrow, so I'm hoping it's miraculously recovered!!

edit, just Googled, seems this is a common problem. I hate Dy$on! I'll check tomorrow if it doesn't work, and see if it has a reset button.

Possession

Byatt wrote: »

Possession, I thought at first it was the electrics but no, everything else is fine, and I'm not sure if the fuse in the plug has gone because I'm not very handy. Not sure about a reset button...but I will check. I am there again tomorrow, so I'm hoping it's miraculously recovered!!

Yes my vote is usually for miraculous recovery in these cases.

Still waiting for Mr Virgin Media Engineer. He'd better turn up or I can't cross him off my list of jobs to be done! And I've just remembered I must put teacher presents on the list, honestly more things go on the list than get crossed off it most days.

Popperwell

Fervent37 wrote: »

Pops we went to see Joe Brown a few years ago and he was fantastic. You are doing exactly the right thing in going to see him and will have a great time. And remember what bonnie_bumpkins said, your mum will be there enjoying it with you.

I think you will find that certain songs will always make you fill up. After 37 years since losing my Dad I still fill up at Eddie Calvert's O Mein Papa. So much so that when my next door neighbour who plays a cornet (very well I have to say) added it to his repertoire I had to ask him to play it when I was out. Bless him he obliged and still doesn't play it when he knows I am in.

Isn't that strange, I teared up when you mentioned about the song that affects you...yes, I am sure that I will enjoy the night! He comes across as such a lovely person. Mum loved all those kinds of songs including that one.

Did I say...a few weeks(on a Sunday)It was a Sunday it happened, after Mum passed away(coincidence or a sign)two songs that were special even when Mum wasn't ill(I always liked Peggy Lee's "The Folks Who Live on The Hill" and Mum lied Jim Reeves "I Love You Because" I was surfing the radio stations and I came across both played after each other and no DJ in between.

Last night of the proms will be strange when they sing Jerusalem even in her last days she could sing that as clear as a bell and alswaays told me how she sung it as a child with other school children and her parents were in the audience proudly watching her. Another song she could sing was the French National Anthem:)

I'll always be touched by music...and think of Mum. Its good to cry...a safety valve.

Byatt wrote: »

Help! Dy$on advice please?? I was hoovering away in my cat sitting house as part of my, "having the house look as good as when they left"...and the thing just stopped working. I was using the hose part (which I think is useless btw, having had a Dy$on in the past)...thought maybe it had overheated (afte 5mins???), so left it, then left it some more...and a bit more...tried again and nothing! Not a peep...I have a really bad habit of accidentally damaging things, although in my defence only one thing ( a vase broke) has been completely my fault. What if the d*mn thing is broken?

I wish I coud help, i hope it's something simple Byatt. Always something to pay to have repaired.Eventually if things break down I'll have to do without or save for ages...but when I got a deal on the internet and a reduction on the phoneline rental.

It was wiped out by my pc needing a new burner and hard drive. Then again the saving on the cost of the internet I suppose paid for the pc repairs...

It's not so much the repairs that cost but labour and call out fees.

Uniscots97

Byatt wrote: »

Talking about the loss of a parent, my dad died in 1992, so quite a while. it was devastating for me, but I won't go into it all now, but just a few weeks ago, they had an advert on in which they played the full version of Little Boxes, can't recall if that's the correct name but it's about little houses looking all the same. My father loved that song, and hearing it again after so many years, had me sobbing in front of the tv, a huge well of emotion. They play it every so often now, can't even remember what the advert is for, but they haven't played it all the way through since. Funny what hits you.

I did that a few months ago when on one of the soap's the character had turned 21 and their family were singing "21 today, key to the door". It brought memories flooding back of my grandparents singing that to me at breakfast on my 21st (day of one of my university final exams). My grandpa passed away last year. I burst into tears hearing it and had to explain to OH. Strange, what triggers things.

Uniscots97

Byatt, Dyson have a free helpline number 0800 954 0154. If yours friends get their Dyson serviced it may also have a sticker on it, I get mine serviced once a year at a Dyson repair place. Last year when it packed in they replaced the front part free of charge.

Popperwell

Byatt wrote: »

Talking about the loss of a parent, my dad died in 1992, so quite a while. it was devastating for me, but I won't go into it all now, but just a few weeks ago, they had an advert on in which they played the full version of Little Boxes, can't recall if that's the correct name but it's about little houses looking all the same. My father loved that song, and hearing it again after so many years, had me sobbing in front of the tv, a huge well of emotion. They play it every so often now, can't even remember what the advert is for, but they haven't played it all the way through since. Funny what hits you.

It is Byatt...and I can quite understand you feeling that way. Little Boxes by Pete Seeger. That would be the original version, it was rewriten and sung by another person for the mobile phone company O2...I think we'll always be caught out this way. I sometimes forget what we did together, what we talked about, even how Mum sounded but memories are provoked sometimes by a song and obviously it tugs at something deep in our subconscious(sp?)

unixgirluk wrote: »

I did that a few months ago when on one of the soap's the character had turned 21 and their family were singing "21 today, key to the door". It brought memories flooding back of my grandparents singing that to me at breakfast on my 21st (day of one of my university final exams). My grandpa passed away last year. I burst into tears hearing it and had to explain to OH. Strange, what triggers things.

Looks like it is something that will always happen to us no matter how much time passes or how old we become ourselves...

Byatt

I'm getting annoyed now, I keep losing my posts!!

Unix, thanks for the helpline number, I'll give them a call if it's still sickly. Next time I will haul my Henrietta Hoover with me.

It is strange what triggers you, but I think music or songs always seem to touch the heart and soul.