what a day....not

[Jeannine]

I knew it was going to be a bad day when I got out of bed this morning..I just had that feeling you know.

So I planned to go shopping, buy a new sun bonnet, a one day sale at half price, then  pop over to the lottie and plant a few seeds..but

I went to the loo , went to flush and the handle fell off, off came the cistern lid and sure enough the fixture had broken so I fixed it with a bit of string. It is a long time since I pulled a chain.

Add new toily handle to the shopping list..

I went to get my bread which I leave to rise overnight in the fridge..it forgot to rise.

I am good at juggling priorites so out comes the breadmaker.. but of course I had flour on the shopping list, so now bread had to be added as there would be no time to make it once I got home.

In the shower I go, all nice and wet to find I had no shampoo..on the list it went.

I passed on brekkie, didn't want to take the chance.

So now I am tidying my stock cupboard which I am told reminds my friends of the one in Sleeping with the Enemy..cheek. I am so organised and in control you see.

So back to the list, 2 tins apricots, 4 baked beans etc etc to make the rows right and then I look on my top shelf where I keep the occasionally used stuff. I find three jars of home made pickled onions which were too salty.
"John Dear" I call, "we don't like these, can you get rid of them"  and I go about making my list.

"Jeannine Dear, do we have a plunger?" I hear from the bathroom, I go to investiagate and find my sweetie with three empty jars and a blocked toilet.

Of course we don't have a plunger and as I am the toilet fixer, I start with a folded old towel..push pull, push pull, ha ha it is working as two pickled onions surface..push pull, push, pull.. nothing.

One hour later, I try the detergent and hot water..nothing

Then I send John to the shop to buy a plunger..nothing is working.

Baking soda and vinegar...a full gallon and a full box... nothing...more plunging ..nothing

3 hours later, I am not so confident I can shift the onions and as our buliding maintenance man goes home early on Fridays I ask a neighbour for advice.

" We have a snake in the janitors room I think" she says. Off John goes with her. He comes back with a snake and a volunteer who knows how to use it,,well maybe.  I hour later and with a very red faced volunteer ..nothing.

Back to the plunger I go.. eventually it becomes apparent that the onions are not going to move so I give in and call the plumber.

In come this lovely strong fella with rippling muscles and a great big snake.  My confidence comes back.One hour later I had 1 pickled onion, a very sweaty plumber and still a blocked toily.

I could go on.. but the bottom line is, the toilet cracked,( nobody can accuse me of having soft pickles, )and it has to be replaced.. on MONDAY.

We have one blocked toilet  the nearest alteratative  is 3 floors down and I get up three times in the night, plus I GO 5 minutes after I get up in the mornings, you know..GO.. and it takes me an hour to unstiffen before I get moving.

We never did get the shopping done, we missed brekkie   so we ate pizza  for  lunch.  I was still perfectly confident I would fix the toilet when we ate it... Pizza gives me the runs!!!!

Just as I am typing, my glasses broke. I should have stayed in bed!!

There has to a moral in this story somewhere.

I think it is going to be a long weekend and I could be in quite a pickle by Monday.

XX Jeannine

PS I didn't get my new bonnet either.

[Jeannine]

[caroline7758]

Oh dear, Jeannine! Things can only get better! xx

[galina]

And you are still smiling ?!?  What a day.  So sorry you had what seems like an annual share of annoying things happen all at once - very inconvenient to live with and costly to fix too.

Hug to you both  :)

[louise stella]

Oh dear!
That was a day to stay in bed methinks!

[antipodes]

Oh dear...maybe now you will win the lottery to make up for it all???
Hope this week is better for you! (and tell John that he can just compost the pickled onions next time!!!!)

[macmac]

Sorry for smiling but I keep thinking of your plumber and his great big snake  ;D ;D ;D ;)

[Aden Roller]

Not the best of days all round.  :(

Here's hoping they improve rapidly.

I'm so pleased the last of my pickled onions discovered at the back of the cupboard went into the compost bin only yesterday. (too soft to eat).

[Ellen K]

Sorry for smiling but I keep thinking of your plumber and his great big snake  ;D ;D ;D ;)

Me too  ;D

Hope it gets sorted today.

[Paulines7]

Sorry for smiling but I keep thinking of your plumber and his great big snake  ;D ;D ;D ;)

Do pythons eat pickled onions? .................................I thought they were carnivores!! ;D ;D ;D ;)


I hope things have been sorted now Jeannine.  It's a good job it didn't happen over here as we are having two days of Bank Holidays to celebrate the Jubilee and I can't imagine hardware/bathroom shops being open until Wednesday.  

[Jeannine]

Well we have a spanking new posh biffy much nicer than the one that was there..very posh. # nights without a loo makes you really appreciate things, but we got by.

Now I want to pull out the vanity cabinet and put a new one in and a set of glass shower doors.

We had the floor retiled about 4 months ago but they put the wrong colour in. I wasn;t there but John was and they showed him before they laid them and he said they were right..This has put me off doing the bathroom as I can't get my head round the colour. It would go great with browns but I want pastels..Grrh. I am seriously considering getting it done over. Well with a posh new biffy.....

XX Jeannine

PS The pliumber with the big snake didn't come today, two hunky plumbers showed up, but I didn't get to see the snakes. :o

[queenbee]

Jeannine, this has brought a memory back, My first husband was a drunken slob, he spent most of our money in the pub. I had made a big pan of Ham and Pea soup, his favourite, when he didn't come home a chucked it down the loo. I did flush but it mustn't have gone down. When he finally arrived home he ran upstairs to the toilet and came down ten minutes later saying that he thought he was very ill, when I asked why  he said it was all green in the toilet. I did not let on and left him to suffer. I could not get this down and it set like concrete. I did eventually clear it but it took days. This was 3O years ago and I still giggle to myself. Served him right.   

[Aden Roller]

Well we have a spanking new posh biffy much nicer than the one that was there..very posh. # nights without a loo makes you really appreciate things, but we got by.

Now I want to pull out the vanity cabinet and put a new one in and a set of glass shower doors.

We had the floor retiled about 4 months ago but they put the wrong colour in. I wasn;t there but John was and they showed him before they laid them and he said they were right..This has put me off doing the bathroom as I can't get my head round the colour. It would go great with browns but I want pastels..Grrh. I am seriously considering getting it done over. Well with a posh new biffy.....

XX Jeannine

PS The plumber with the big snake didn't come today, two hunky plumbers showed up, but I didn't get to see the snakes. :o

I'm beginning to think your plumbing firm are sending these fit lads out to encourage you to go all out for a full refit.  :D

[Digeroo]

My OH has a great method for blocked loos.  He has a thick piece of plastic which he ties across the lavvy bowel with a length of rope, putting a neat fold in the plastic in the middle.  Then using the fold as a handle you pump up and down.  Its acts like a huge plunger.  Never known it not to work.

[Jeannine]

Nothing workrd, two different snakes were tried, the plunger was useless, but all done now, fortunatley I have a family connection the the plumbers so at least I could trust them,

XX Jeamnnine

[pumkinlover]

Please explain the snake thing ???

[Jeannine]

"It is long tool that goes down tht toilet, then it is wound deep in then a handle turns the bent bit at the start so it rotates in the loo and breaks up the blockage.

xx Jeannine"

Lovely! I hope they wrap it up as they carry it about!!

[bridgehouse]

Oh Jeannine, and I thought I had a bad week end ,don't do any pickled onions this year.
   June.

[Jeannine]

Pumpkin lover...how did you manage to edit my post ???

XX Jeannine