78 and going strong

My mother has been doing her best to restart the economy and end the credit crunch, only slightly assisted by myself.

On her birthday (yesterday 30th May) we went to an independent store in sunny Stafford to replace two aged machines.

The story is...

The washing machine finally gave up the ghost after about 20 years' service, which became obvious when the ball-bearing crunched and departed the machine during a particularly noisy cycle.

I wonder if my mum was a secret ITIL expert, as in the spirit of Availability Management she had an entire spare machine. Alas, this was also beyond its best, and hadn't been used for many a year, and we didn't even have the instructions.

Therefore we dispatched to Stafford with all intent on replacing the distressed items of domestic engineering.

Central Stafford

The shop is behind that little bridge

Happy Birthday - let's eat Chinese seafood!! Yum

Zhe shi hao chi! This tasted very nice

I celebrated by wearing my linen suit, which actually seemed to fit
(well it did from the inside, anyway)

New washer
sadly they didn't have hot-fill but I did try

I later returned for the separate tumble dryer and that, too, was installed.

Today we ventured to B&Q (how I love that place for various reasons...) and we bought a lawn-raker, some trellis, slug-pellets, and a glorious purchase....

I love this - just thinking of a reason to borrow it
I did transport the distressed washing machines to the scrap-metal man