Photo for handyman

I’m having big problems with my electricity fusing. My handyman has electrician’s qualifications and he spent most of yesterday trying to find the cause of the fusing. I suddenly had an idea about one plug socket so emailed him about it today. (Yesterday we thought the cause was the external sockets which I use to plug in the lawnmower and strimmer - they could have got damp in all the rain we’ve been having. He replaced the whole unit but it didn’t cure the problem).

He’s a bit fed up with moving furniture to get access to things, and so am I because I have to put everything back in place afterwards! He’s just emailed a request for a photo to show him how much stuff he might have to move to get access to the dodgy socket. I haven’t taken any other photos on this bleak, wet and windy day today so I thought I’d use this for my blip! I don’t think anything needs moving here!

The craziest thing happened at 4.30 am today. I was woken by noisy buzzing. I couldn’t work out what it was. I hoped it wasn’t another electrical problem. I tracked it down to my electric toothbrush, which had turned itself on! I turned it off but after 5 minutes or so it had turned itself on again! This time it didn’t respond to the ‘off’ switch. I ended up smothering it with a cloth and putting it outside. I wondered if a faulty toothbrush could catch fire! This morning it was intermittently creaking. It took all day to finally go quiet! So I had a dreary trip to Asda for a replacement toothbrush. Guess what? It won’t charge up! So tomorrow will be another dreary trip to return it!

It hasn’t been a fun day.