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*sighs in relief*
Feb. 18th, 2007 04:24 pmIt's half-term, so Rowan and I have the week off! Got several activities planned - including a trip to the bowling alley with his best friend Isaac on Wednesday - but how much of it we get done relies entirely on my bank balance.
So...Friday we waited in for a plumber/electrician to come replace my shower unit. Had to call the company at about one in the afternoon to chase them up, but he did come out and replaced the thing pretty quickly. However (didn't you just know that was coming?) the new shower was also spraying out only scalding hot water. So, obviously, the unit itself was not faulty.
It turns out that when they did the refit in my bathroom, the guy who installed the shower in the first place plumbed it up to the hot water pipe. So the shower was trying to heat up water that was already very hot! *facepalms* As a result, the guy had to come back again first thing next morning (dragged me out of bed at quarter past eight...) and get underneath the bath to replumb it all. It was a really tight squeeze under there too, bless.
He said he'll try and come back monday morning with some sort of plumbers tool that would hopefully clear whatever's blocking the bathroom drains, so he's not put the side panel back on the bath yet. I hope he does, as I've had to get Rowan to promise not to investigate under there, and we're keeping the door shut to stop Symba getting in there too.
Saturday afternoon, we met up with Tim for pizza before a trip to the movies; Rowan and I went to see Charlottes Web, while Tim met up with his brother to see Hot Fuzz. I ate more pizza than the boys did, which made me feel like a right pig even though I only had three slices. But then again, we'd had starters too *smacks lips* Mmmm...garlic bread....
Today Rowan went to see the in-laws as usual. Dad was home today too, so we ended up talking until about two this afternoon. So by the time I got back home, I wasn't in the mood to do any housework, though I will have to do some laundry this evening. Plus I had some computer problems thanks to the latest set of Windows Updates, which must have downloaded while Rowan was playing on this thing yesterday. Had to restart the machine to get the downloads installed properly, and thankfully it's working okay now. *sigh and sporks XP* I wonder what'll happen once Microsoft abandon XP in the hopes they can force us all to upgrade to Vista.... I think I'll probably have let Rowan have this PC for himself by then, and gotten myself a new one.
Right, time to go wait for Rowan to get back. Not entirely sure what I'm going to do with him tomorrow, though I think he'll probably want to go out to the park or something. That'll depend on the weather of course - it's bloody horrible standing around watching your kid play on the slides and things when it's freezing cold.
So...Friday we waited in for a plumber/electrician to come replace my shower unit. Had to call the company at about one in the afternoon to chase them up, but he did come out and replaced the thing pretty quickly. However (didn't you just know that was coming?) the new shower was also spraying out only scalding hot water. So, obviously, the unit itself was not faulty.
It turns out that when they did the refit in my bathroom, the guy who installed the shower in the first place plumbed it up to the hot water pipe. So the shower was trying to heat up water that was already very hot! *facepalms* As a result, the guy had to come back again first thing next morning (dragged me out of bed at quarter past eight...) and get underneath the bath to replumb it all. It was a really tight squeeze under there too, bless.
He said he'll try and come back monday morning with some sort of plumbers tool that would hopefully clear whatever's blocking the bathroom drains, so he's not put the side panel back on the bath yet. I hope he does, as I've had to get Rowan to promise not to investigate under there, and we're keeping the door shut to stop Symba getting in there too.
Saturday afternoon, we met up with Tim for pizza before a trip to the movies; Rowan and I went to see Charlottes Web, while Tim met up with his brother to see Hot Fuzz. I ate more pizza than the boys did, which made me feel like a right pig even though I only had three slices. But then again, we'd had starters too *smacks lips* Mmmm...garlic bread....
Today Rowan went to see the in-laws as usual. Dad was home today too, so we ended up talking until about two this afternoon. So by the time I got back home, I wasn't in the mood to do any housework, though I will have to do some laundry this evening. Plus I had some computer problems thanks to the latest set of Windows Updates, which must have downloaded while Rowan was playing on this thing yesterday. Had to restart the machine to get the downloads installed properly, and thankfully it's working okay now. *sigh and sporks XP* I wonder what'll happen once Microsoft abandon XP in the hopes they can force us all to upgrade to Vista.... I think I'll probably have let Rowan have this PC for himself by then, and gotten myself a new one.
Right, time to go wait for Rowan to get back. Not entirely sure what I'm going to do with him tomorrow, though I think he'll probably want to go out to the park or something. That'll depend on the weather of course - it's bloody horrible standing around watching your kid play on the slides and things when it's freezing cold.
