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[RickyX]

Originally Posted by antonye

Oh, forgot to mention that our oven went ping at the weekend too, so there's an engineer on his way out to sort that as well ... it never rains, eh?

Antony,

Our oven goes ping too...but that just means the pizza is ready......... ;->

The "engineer" (*) must be rubbing his hands at the thought of the juicy call out fee...

RX

* don't get me started on the "engineer" rant -
"Oooh, you're an engineer, can you mend my fridge/car/drains/tree etc etc"..
"You're right, I am, but I'm not a repairman/mechanic/bog cleaner etc"

[Ray]

Jools,

A couple of companies have come with a solution to this, one is megacycle in the US of A?

They refinish the rockers but it ain't cheap to get done.

Ray.

[antonye]

Originally Posted by RickyX

The "engineer" (*) must be rubbing his hands at the thought of the juicy call out fee...

The bad news is that the engineer couldn't fix it.

The good news is that he wouldn't charge, even for the call out!

He was there all of fifteen mins as he checked over the oven and tried swapping some parts over, but no joy. He said that we'd need to find out from Whirlpool direct what the error code meant as he didn't want to order parts on a guess-whats-broken basis. Once we'd found this out he would come back and sort it!

[Redruth]

You could look at this another way, Ant. You could think "how very nice of the IR to pay for my new rockers/oven"

[antonye]

Originally Posted by Redruth

You could look at this another way, Ant. You could think "how very nice of the IR to pay for my new rockers/oven"

I could do, until you realise that it was my money in the first place that the IR took when they shouldn't have

[Redruth]

Yes but they 'saved' it for you and gave it back just in time to meet Mitch's bill - how lucky was that?

Trust me on this one, after years of explaining to people about investments going down as well as up, I've learned to look on the bright side of just about every possible financial scenario.

Take my recent bike purchase? Can I afford it? No. Did I want it? Yes.
Do I need to earn some money now to pay for it? Yes.

Do you have a Will? No? I'll come and do one for you and you can pay for it out of your recent IR refund. I'll even give you a DSC discount. Howsaat? xx

[antonye]

Originally Posted by Redruth

Yes but they 'saved' it for you and gave it back just in time to meet Mitch's bill - how lucky was that?

If they really did "save" it for me, then where is my interest? Theiving *******s ... should be wearing masks.

Don't remind me about Mitch's bill ... full service, 3 rockers, new forks, new cush drives, clean and tidy ... it ain't gonna be a small one

Originally Posted by Redruth

Do you have a Will?

Yes

[Redruth]

You do? B"gger. I mean, congratulations for being amongst the 40% of the country who have bothered to make one.

Mitch is worth every penny you spend with him, as you well know, and I'm very pleased you have a Will because that's one less person I have to worry about

[Stu748R]

Originally Posted by Redruth

You could look at this another way, Ant. You could think "how very nice of the IR to pay for my new rockers/oven"

I look at it from the other angle ,cant the government borrow money from someone else. The lord giveth but the gord taketh away.

[Henners]

Originally posted by Redruth
and I'm very pleased you have a Will because that's one less person I have to worry about

... and me