HOOVER-CANDY FRIDGE-FREEZER SAGA pt 14, pt 2 (please see previous post for the gory details...)
Ken woke me at 3pm, just before leaving to collect Kai. H-C customer service rang at around 3.20... [shakes head] I have this mental image of them drawing straws to decide who will be growled at next... Reasonably apologetic. Then he explained that although they'd allocated us a replacement f-f , somehow the delivery peeps managed not to get the instruction, and they were now out of stock of the replacement. No, he couldn't tell me when they'd get any more in stock. However, they did have an identical appliance but with an 'aluminium finish': would we be prepared to accept that one?
This is the version they're offering us.
This is the one we have at the moment (well, close enough, though this one seems to have a couple of extra features that ours doesn't, so perhaps it's a slightly higher spec...).
I'm not a great fan of the 'industrial kitchen' look, but
dammit, I just want a fridge that bloody works!! And given that the microwave is 'aluminium finish', and the kitchen odds and sods I've bought this year (bin, washing up bowl, cutlery drainer etc.) are silver-grey, I decided we can live with it, so after confirming that all the specs are the same, and that they WILL collect the old one, I said OK. Delivery should be Friday - unless anything else goes wrong.
Then I stood in the kitchen and looked around. Yes, we need a new sink unit and a mixer tap: water from the taps and the washing machine has soaked into the... um... mdf is it called? Whatever the 1950s version was, anyway, chipboard?... and the whole thing lists at an angle. Ken would like a double sink. (Yes, Ken: he does most of the washing up. [evil grin] Evidently I don't do a good enough job.) We need to make better use of the wall space. It would be nice to have new worktops too, and new doors to the cupboards, even if we can't afford to replace the whole units. And the room badly needs repainting, of course. Upshot is I think we'll go for blue, smoked glass and brushed steel/'aluminium' out there. It'll mean new flooring and window blind, but everything else will fit in, with the wooden containers adding a whimsical touch. Will try to make a start in the New Year, when the current projects are finished.
And there'll be photos, of course.
In other news, Ken was invited to give a talk to the
Bristol Society for Paranormal Research and Investigation last night at the King's Head pub in St George (lift there and back), following the publication of the Briz Ghosts book. Apparently it all went well, and nearly all of the attendees bought one of the books, which is great!
AGM was fine. I seem to have been made a member of the BCP sort of by accident, but since that doesn't really involve doing anything more than I already do I suppose that's OK.
Back to Dreams. Now at 27,181 words and still behind...
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
pontificated this at 9:17 pm
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