Outpourings from a Tortured Soul!

[Michael J Campbell]

We are going to need them all. I think Maggi is watching the Tennis.

[ranunculus]

We are going to need them all. I think Maggi is watching the Tennis.

Don't they shout; "New balls"!!!? 

[Michael J Campbell]

   mmm!  If only, that is a bit much to ask. Oh that's in tennis !!!. I don't watch tennis. that's a woman's game. 

[ranunculus]

We are going to need them all. I think Maggi is watching the Tennis.

Probably out shopping or multi-tasking, Michael ... neither of which we are able to contemplate?

[Maggi Young]

By jove, the tennis from Australia is good!   

Speaking as a 59 year old dishwasher, still in fine fettle (though always noisy) and not expecting to be replaced any time soon - I 'll just say that if you give some folks enough rope, then............ 

[Michael J Campbell]

 

[David Nicholson]

Whilst you lot have been having a laugh I spent most of the afternoon laid on my back on the kitchen floor trying to stuff pipes and electric cables up the back of kitchen cabinets and pull them through access holes tied to lengths of string to install the new (and white!) washing machine. I'd envisaged, on first switch on, to have water all over the kitchen floor again (I seemed to be nearly knee deep taking out the old machine) but all seems to be well so far (fingers and everything else crossed). Got a kiss when the new machine started without a flood

Different story on the car, regrettably, seems to be a flywheel malfunction (don't ask!) not unusual on diesels the man said. Arm and a leg job though.

PS: I didn't mean the access holes were tied to lengths of string

[Maren]

Appliances

When my washing machine started dancing the Flamenco (I could tell by the rhythmical clatter), I got in a nice local man who:
 
a) fixed it at a very reasonable cost
b) told me to hold on to this one (AEG, 15 years old), as none of the new ones would be as good or last as long.

Good advice and a rare moment to treasure.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

Whilst you lot have been having a laugh I spent most of the afternoon laid on my back on the kitchen floor trying to stuff pipes and electric cables up the back of kitchen cabinets and pull them through access holes tied to lengths of string to install the new (and white!) washing machine. I'd envisaged, on first switch on, to have water all over the kitchen floor again (I seemed to be nearly knee deep taking out the old machine) but all seems to be well so far (fingers and everything else crossed). Got a kiss when the new machine started without a flood

Different story on the car, regrettably, seems to be a flywheel malfunction (don't ask!) not unusual on diesels the man said. Arm and a leg job though.

PS: I didn't mean the access holes were tied to lengths of string

I really had a big laugh reading your "adventures", David ! 
Many congratulations on getting the new machine working ! Maybe something I wouldn't manage...  so the kiss was thoroughly deserved ! 

[Lesley Cox]

We are going to need them all. I think Maggi is watching the Tennis.

I wasn't though! Had I not been so very busy multi-tasking (doing dishes, after cooking, managing a market, cleaning my car, getting enough food into 3 men, emptying troughs, potting bulbs, writing an article for the March NZ Iris Soc Bulletin and finding appropriate picture, (deadline 31st Jan) and re-locating concrete, limestone and hypertufa troughs, blocks, limestone slabs and a statue) over the last few days, MORE WOULD HAVE BEEN SAID about the trouble certain Forumists were getting themselves into. But the past is the past and forgiveness is given - for now. Thankfully I am also very good at giving instructions to those who need them and the above tasks were concluded successfully, the instructions having been followed to the letter.

[ranunculus]

Hearty congratulations, Lesley ... your father must have taught you well!!!   

[Lesley Cox]

Yakkity Yak.

[Lvandelft]

Yakkity Yak.

Don't bother Lesley, Cliff might not understand you, cause he was at the time of this song still in his swaddling clothes 

By the way, I loved to read David's adventures 

[ranunculus]

Don't bother Lesley, Cliff might not understand you, cause he was at the time of this song still in his swaddling clothes 

By the way, I loved to read Divid's adventures 

Luit, A Leiber and Stoller 'classic'(?) by the Coasters ... but I don't know this 'Divid'!!! LOL.

[Lvandelft]

but I don't know this 'Divid'!!! LOL.

Cliff I saw that too, but could not find the "modify" button. It was always there