Your Christmas Emergency (non serious)

[Deleted member 1258]

Three minor problems this Xmas, they usually come in threes don't they? Driving my good lady back from the hair dressers Xmas eve I noticed the indicator blinky on the dash going a bit fast, I'd blown an indicator bulb, down Halfords this morning for a new bulb. Last night we came to switch the TV off and go to bed and found the TV and remote weren't talking to each other, had to use the controls on the back of the TV, looked at it this morning and the remote is working the problem is with the TV, we had the same problem earlier in the year and it started working the day before the repair man came out, and sure enough they started talking to each other this evening and we still don't know what the fault is. My good lady switched on the bathroom light this morning and it just started flashing and that was that, cue me up the ladder when I got back from Halfords, three screws holding the glass on and a horseshoe shaped tube inside, an internet search and a phone call then a trip to Warmead Lighting on the Holyhead Rd for a replacement then back up the ladder to put it all together.

 

[Arch]

Not this year, but a couple of years back, first time NT came to have Christmas at my Mum's, and on Christmas with my sister's family due within an hour, the bathroom light pull came off in his hand. Mum started to go into meltdown at the thought of getting an electrician out, but NT said "where's the nearest diy store?", drove down there, bought a new switch, came back and fitted it.

I think that was the point she reckoned I'd found a good 'un.

 

[bof]

Well the flooding...
Oh how we laughed at the sight of people who bought cheap houses in flood plains complaining about flooding on the TV news. We got our comuppance.

When I got up yesterday I noticed that Monday's gale had ripped off half our shed's roof felt. Took a look and decided the whole lot had to be replaced. So off to B&Q when it opened at 10 to buy the stuff. My brother who came over for Xmas hung around until about 12:45, so we only had a bit over 3 hours daylight left. By the time it got dark (its a bloody big shed as I have loads of bikes), got all the old felt and tacks off, new felt laid and partly tacked down by dark. Decided not to crawl over the roof in the dark but finish this morning before heading off on a scheduled relly visit. At 8pm I took a look at forecast and saw more gales forecast - oh Sh*t - so put some old roof tiles over the parts I could reach easily and crossed my fingers.

Of course the overnight gale took two strips off again so tacked down the three good ones this morning, starting in the near dark and finishing by 9. Dark when we got home, so hoping when I check in the morning that that they are still in place and then repeat the cycle of visit B&Q, buy roofing felt ...

Oh and the elderly dishwasher packed up on Christmas eve

 

[Fnaar]

Aaaww poor love, can't be an enjoyable experience for her.
Does she bounce back OK once the episode has finished?

She's knackered for a day after, but then she's OK. Thanks for the comments folks. Of course it's hard for her, but for us (as a family) we know how to manage when it happens, and dare I say it, it's become 'routine'. She's home from uni for Christmas, so it's a huge worry when she is away (it's happened once since Sept, when she went to uni, and apparently her flatmates were brill).

 

[Venod]

Son in law looked terrible (I thought hangover MTFU) Christmas Day he had to go home to bed, when Daughter & Grandchildren went home they had to take him to A&E, he has foot & mouth, when son arrived Boxing Day he looked terrible (I thought hangover MTFU) he didn't sleep all night & had stuff running out of his ears, he had to go to docs, he has a severe ear infection.

 

[surfdude]

got my bits stuck in a onesie zip after a visit to the loo . painful but sorted after a very loud scream for help from the wife . need a bloody health warning these things .

 

[Berties]

This was 14 years ago,I had finished work Xmas eve at 3pm and went out for a seasonal session ,about 6pm my phone rang to say the cat had eaten half the turkey,all shops were shut wife was 6 months pregnant at the time,
House full in the morning ,what to do?
I was in no state to do any thing other than drink more and sleep!
I awoke Xmas day morning with the mother of hang overs and rang a few contacts and located a turkey,so panic was aborted lunch was a little late but we did it!

 

[Blue]

Well the flooding...
Oh and the elderly dishwasher packed up on Christmas eve

The loss of a loved one is hard at this time of year.

 

[mcshroom]

The loss of a loved one is hard at this time of year.

And just how does one acquire new domestic staff on Christmas Eve?

 

[Firestorm]

Xmas eve there were prediction of train trouble for the trip to work so I planned to check the twitter feeds before I left
At 5.30 the next morning , no trains
Same at 1/4 intervala as Igot ready so at 6.15 I jumped in the car and drove 30 miles to the nearest tube station, with local radio repeating no trains
Park , pay and as I get in to the station I noticed that the mainline platform , which is the same line as the one 5 minutes walk from my house,had people on it and a train expected in 4 minutes.....
So the journey home in the afternoon has interuptrd half way to pick the car up, to find Ihad a puncture. With it being a 2 year old car there was no spare just some puncture repair goo and a compressor fitted in the boot, which did not seem to come qith a power lead
RAC fixed it all and end up home about 3 hours later than I should hace been

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I made a pie and used puff pastry rather than shortcrust as the recipe stated, it was still nice though.

 

[accountantpete]

Cat got bitten on Monday evening (not by me!) and became a bit hyper - so spent Tuesday am calming her down.

Then on Thursday she must have started to develop a reaction which resulted in more crying/hissing and a refusal to eat her Applaws tuna.

Friday saw a visit to Vet who gave her a Metacam/Antibiotics injection and now she's right as rain.

 

[Sandra6]

Mother xmas forgot to buy anything to be left on youngest son's bed on xmas eve.

 

[alicat]

Mother xmas forgot to buy anything to be left on youngest son's bed on xmas eve.

Whoops! How old is youngest son?

 

[alicat]

1. Neighbour who was steaming the pub let the pan boil dry. I cut the plastic bowl away and transferred the contents to a Pyrex bowl. All while listening to her bleat how useful she was and criticising how I was fixing the problem she had creating.

2. Dropped my large mixing bowl after making pastry for mince pies. Sob.