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02/16/2002 Entry: "Trials and tribulations"

You wouldn't think that getting a new fridge-freezer would be such a trial. First it fitted the space we had prepared for it so exactly that the door wouldn't open. Fix that by shifting the hinge. Only if you get the top spindle undone, but it's secured by a small inaccessible nut and appears to have been tightened by someone who's overdone the steroids. Some unministerial language and a phonecall to a friend later, the door is rehung. Discover the following day that the door does not now seal properly and must be taken off again. The top spindle is now bent. More unministerial language and another phonecall to a (different) friend. All now seems well, except that the temperature in the fridge refuses to go below 6 Celsius and Jayne (wife) is beginning to panic. I write my blog to take my mind off it...