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2010
02.24

Snow surprise, fixing stuff, fishy

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Went out to get the post this morning:
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After I spent some time clearing the driveway, the snow plough came back…
snowplough

…and blocked the driveway again!
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At this point, I gave up and went in to have lunch. Our very kind neighbours had brought us a fish back from their weekend trip to civillisation (they visited friends in New York) which the boys and I greedily tucked into.
mackerel

Also this morning, before snow play, we got round to fixing the boys’ stereo. The wretched thing had been playing to around track 4 or 5, then getting stuck and finally stopping and displaying “Er” on the display. Er…? is about right.

Needless to say, I took it apart:
stereo

If I’m honest, I probably didn’t really need to do that, but it gave me access to the laser which I cleaned with a bit of alcohol, and removed a very fine hair from the lens unit. It was the sort of hair you would get off a cotton bud, so it could be that I put it there when I cleaned the lens. Either way, taking it apart and putting it back together again made it work. However, instead of the usual extra screw leftover, I actually had one missing. Maybe somewhere in the universe all these extra and missing screws balance out in perfect equilibrium.
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Ollie is much better today, in that he’s not burning up, but he’s now a green snot monster, which isn’t better for me. However, at least he’s crying a bit less and laughing a bit more.
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  1. Mediterranean Beach Fan Club said: 2010.02.25 06:58

    IKEA SOFA!!

    Can you come over and fix my CD player too? It just won’t open it’s CD drawer.

  2. Rosie Knowles said: 2010.02.25 13:52

    Wow! both on the snow, and on the fixing… supermum!

  3. elise said: 2010.02.25 15:18

    @Nao: wow you could identify sofa even with some of the covers missing where Ollie and I had a fight over taking medicine ending up with it all over me, him and the sofa, but none in his mouth! I’d love to fix your CD player. It’s probably a cog problem – you need to align the teeth – does it try to whirr? If it doesn’t even do that, then maybe the power to the motor needs re-soldering.

    We often drop our stereo on the floor from the height of about 70cm. This could be why it wasn’t working.

    @Rosie – if I was that super I would make sun, not snow! ;-)

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