Breaking Through, Travelling On

Karmacat

El, absolutely, sounds like it'd be more trouble than its worth!

Watty - its a very interesting concept, isn't it! There seem to be all sorts of ways to legitimately cut down on your tax bill. Monevator's is the simplest, but as you say, shipping funds directly in one way or another is bound to help!

Of course, even if I'm tax dark in the UK, the French bills are something fierce!

Not ready to do my to-do list today I got distracted by the eclipse, fair enough (rubbish round here, air's full of smog!) but I can't find any proof I've bought the washing machine, apart from a text last night from the delivery people :o:o must do better.

Cheery_Daff

Did they actually *send* you proof? Hope you find it if so! xx

Karmacat

Mmm, good question - I was hunting for an email, you know the sort, thank you for buying our horrendous little piece of carp thats going to fall apart in 2 years anyway can't even find that

And I just thought I'd say, I hate Hotpoint. And their "customer service arm" D&G. Three days to process a phone call cancelling a contract, within the cooling off time, but 9 days to get the funds they mistakenly took back to me. Not cool, Hotpoint, not cool :cool::eek:

And argh, I've only got one tick on my to-do list (pay the credit cards) - this has taken ages, thats another reason I hate them Of course, I can also blame them for the clouds during the eclipse, that'd be fun :j

Cheery_Daff

Sounds like the clouds might well have been their fault as well Pesky fiends.

Karmacat

:D:D

Lots more ticks on the to-do list appeared, thank heavens

The new washing machine may be a quarter inch too tall to fit under the counter but the real issue is the height of the counter, which is a DIY mishap by the previous owner. If it leads to further work, I'm okay with that, annoying as the extra expense might be, it'll be worth it in the long run since it means not living with someone else's bodge ...

And I'm on holiday :j:j:j or at least, clients have finished - still got to clean up, and certainly still got to figure out how to get the w/m out of its hidey hole, which means cycling the dishwasher (I had another little mishap this morning, mea culpa this time).

I'm reminded of something an old-time mse member said: "it takes a lot of work to be this spontaneous" and somehow, I never seem to be able to do quite enough work to appear spontaneous :rotfl:

elantan

you could always turn the drum of your old machine in to a fire pit for the garden

Karmacat

I was thinking about that but since I don't have the strength to undo the plastic hosepipe connections, I really doubt the fire pit thing is going to happen.

I sense this may go badly Calling the fitters produces very sweet, very dopy youngsters who are charming and laughing, but no help whatsoever ...

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I remember the late '70s (yes, I can remember that far back and I was hard-up even then:eek:, but just getting established as a home-owner it didn't seem to matter and I was always full of enthusiasm). I got OH to remove the stainless steel drum from the 'dead' washing machine that the previous house owner had 'kindly' left for us and I bought a large circular piece of glass to place on top to make a very chic (well it was in those days:rotfl:) coffee table. I got the idea from a magazine, I was interested in recycling/penny-pinching even then. I didn't attach the top at all and I remember forever having to adjust the glass and push it back into place whenever anyone pushed past it and dislodged it. Must have been a death-trap but we'd never heard of 'Health and Safety' in those halcyon days:j.

I loved that 'table' and am ashamed to say I can't remember what eventually became of it:o. OH wouldn't have thrown it out, I suspect the 'components are still buried under a lot of his other clutter in one of the sheds:eek:

Karmacat

Thats brilliant, CBC :T

And as for remembering the late 70s, um, yes, I was a homeowner by 1979 a tiny flat in East London, but mine own, nonetheless :beer:

You were up very early :eek: I've been up for about 2 hours, and I still feel v dopey the washing machine peeps are coming between 3 and 7 this afternoon. Between the stuck hoses and the low counter, I've decided to just cut the hoses (with a bucket underneath) so that at least the delivery peeps can take the old one away. Then I'll ring the repairman I found, and get him to instal it. If it was push and click like the dishwasher, I might try to do it myself, but its not

So for now, its back to washing underwear in the bathroom sink!

Watty1

CBC you were so ahead of the curve! One of Kirsty et als upcycling programmes had someone making a coffee table from a bit of a car engine with a glass circle on top!