The week started well with our old backdoor being replaced. The previous door had warped and was letting in cold air much like the front door which we also replaced recently. The new backdoor was left with a blank panel at the top so that they could measure and align the georgian bars to the windows (The glass panel is due to be fitted on Monday morning).
A little later in the week I came home to the noise of our ensuite toilet flushing, not a problem, except that the toilet after a few minutes silence kept doing a mini flush repeatedly. I was informed by Mr C that there was a problem… After Mr C had phoned up to arrange a repair man for the next morning he turned off the water to the toilet and the annoying noise stopped. Phew!!
Next morning the repairman came, the toilet was fixed and when I arrived home in the evening I noticed that the flush was much quieter than it had ever been. Either a better quality mechanism has been fitted or it was always faulty…
The following morning (after the toilet repair) I was rudely awoken by Mr C saying ‘are you there’ repeatedly… In my mostly asleep but partly awake state I was thinking of course I am here you can see me!! I surfaced enough from my sleep to work out we had another problem… The central heating had broken (again) and was permanently on although the timer was off. The engineer could come between 8am and 1pm, could I have the morning off? When I was awake enough to compute that it was Thursday and not Friday, the answer was yes. Mr C was setting off early for a business stay overnight, hence the urgency of his questions whilst I was still asleep.
The engineer came and knew immediately from the description of the fault what the problem was and how to fix it. We also knew what the problem was, it is a part in our heating system that fails often. He also (randomly) identified that one of our plug sockets was not earthed! By the time he arrived it was late in the morning and I rang up work to ask if it was OK for me to have the afternoon off too 
When I arrived home from work the following day Mr C’s hire car was parked on the drive (as it had been the evening before he left). The hire car was more like a bus and took up far too much space on our drive. The hire car company didn’t pick it up as was expected and it was there overnight. This morning Mr C phoned up the hire car company who advised that they wouldn’t be able to come until after midday. It became evident that it wouldn’t be picked up today either so Mr C decided to drive it back to the depot and have me follow to pick him up rather than it be on our drive another night.
Before we went out I was doing some housework and the vacuum cleaner emitted some sparks (twice) as I turned it off… And there is a light in the kitchen that keeps switching itself on and off at random…
The sudden resurgence of electrical/energy problems reminds me of:
I will leave you with a photo of our delightful evening meal 
Since all the snow arrived in North Idaho. Haven’t had much time for general home care. I know if we had any break down in last few days it would of been…All hands on deck.
Coffee is on
It has been quite a while since we have a deep fall of snow.
Oh dear! I’d happily have heating on all the time rather than not being on at all (at least during this cold weather). Have you thought about moving?
What I mean by it being on all the time is that even when the house has got to temperature and the thermostat cuts out the heating carries on because the valve (actuator) remains open. This makes the house become super tropical!!!
The evening meal was lovely, made up for the vicissitudes of earlier.
The meal was delicious
I know everything will eventually break down or wear out, but don’t you hate it? If only we could repair these things ourselves, without having to rely on others.
It is annoying when everything seems to break at the same time
Your meal looks delicious!
It was, thank you
Hope this week is better for you. It is awful when one thing goes wrong let alone several
The meal looks delicious 
Thanks Caroline
I hope this week is better too. So far we are not sure about the panel that was fitted on the door this morning…
I like pak choi.
Best to cook it on its own, with some ginger slices.
Ha ha… it’s a secret to Chinese stir fry, don’t tell anybody else.
The tastes in this dish were interesting and lingered pleasantly on the tongue
The food looks great and after the adventures I think is tasted good too….
It almost looks like your apparatus in the house are having their own life???
Yes our house apparatus seem to be conspiring with each other!