Busy Weekend at Fink Mansion

Phew, what a weekend. Mr Fink and I headed off to Wickes, B&Q, Homebase etc to check out the showers. Didn't buy one. While I was in Wickes, The Oracle phoned me and invited me out for a drink (coffee) and a gossip. So we went to the local pub and had a lovely gossip, put the world to rights and solved all kinds of problems! then I dropped her off to meet with her sister and I went home. When I got in I had the most awful headache and felt really sick - must have been all the caffeine from 5 cups of pub coffee. Never again!

Saturday I went to work, when I finished I found several patients wandering round the deserted department, they were lost - my worst nightmare, I just know I'm going to get them lost even more by trying to help them! We found where they were supposed to be and I went home. In the evening we met Nanny and Shouty Grandad at the swimming pool for the Cubs District Swimming Gala. Little Fink came first in her heat of the 25m breaststroke and third in the final. Her team came 2nd out of 16 Cub packs. We were all so proud of her.

Sunday we did the housework and then GWTBO and Nanny S came round for dinner which Mr Fink cooked brilliantly. Afterwards we were treated to a game of Triv and some magic tricks from Little Fink. A thoroughly entertaining afternoon of entertaining!

Next week I have Bob The Plumber (Plumb-bob geddit?) coming round to start the bathroom refurb and the Ovenu cooker guy coming on Thur to clean my cooker. (Note to self - Do not ask the Oven guy to marry you again!)

Steve the Plumber saves the day

So the heating has been on since....the first day of Summer. I just had my best mate who moved to Oz over to stay, she was freezing so i turned the heating up. I didn't realise until she had gone back down under - the radiator in her bedroom wasn't working.

You may recall the 'interesting' time we had when the central heating was updated. (see previous blog).

Well, I went to the new radiator, easily bled it, ran a couple of bottles of water off, still no hot water. tried again the next day and the next day. Nothing.

Mr Fink called Steve the Plumber - Steve managed to fit us in tonight. I got home after the shop to find the two men in the kitchen drinking tea.

"Thank you so much Steve, I'm sorry to have called you out, I tried everything I could to fix it but I can't get the water to come through hot. How did you fix it? "

"That's ok, the valve was stuck, I just hit it with the pliers and it worked!"

DOH