Blindness
Life has thrown up another annoyance.
It’s not a problem as such, just something that pisses me off every night.
Those lovely lads who insisted on replacing nice little windows with ugly monstrosities accidentally forgot to mention to me that they had removed all the window blinds. I didn’t discover this until after they had departed. I’m sure this was just a little oversight on their part.
Anyhows I was left with a series of windows and no way of cutting out the light for sleeping purposes. As it happened, the blind in my window was fine. They removed the roller but left the clamps so I just had to clip it back into place.
Herself wasn’t so fortunate.
The blind there had been attached to the frame and so the lads had removed the blind and clamps and had left them on the ledge. But the now window was narrower so the roller was now fractionally just too long to fit into the gap. There was no way of fixing that little problem and that evening I had to come up with a solution or else Herself would literally be woken at first light.
In the end I discovered I could unroll the blind to cover the window and then just force it into the frame which didn’t do me or the blind much good. Never mind it worked.
A couple of mornings later it didn’t.
I was awoken by a rather annoyed Missus at the crack of dawn to find that my wedged blind had decided to rebel and had fallen to the floor with a crash and naturally filled the room with the glorious light of a sunrise, not to mention scaring the shit out of Herself. Fuck!
The process now is to repeat the process of unrolling the blind and then wedging the roll into the new frame. It’s still dodgy to say the least but I found a way of wedging the roll even further by propping it up with a crutch at each end. Those crutches go way back in time and haven’t been used in years but once again I proved my old adage – never throw anything away as you never know when it might come in handy. I adjusted each crutch to the right length and they wedge in beautifully but look a bit weird.
Now I have to go about getting someone out to measure up and fit a new blind. Sigh!
If I had known the havoc that retrofit job was going to cause, I would have told them to shove it…..
‘If I had known the havoc that retrofit job was going to cause…’
As is always the case. They get paid to do one job, ancillary jobs are somebody else’s problem. If you get a general builder to do a job they have they ancillary trades to finish the job. When you get a single trade they just do their job and leave the mess, so you end up hiring all the other trades to finish the job.
But that never ends. Remember the song “twas on the Monday morning that the gas man came to call!”.
I love Flanders and Swan. I saw them live in concert and ’twas brilliant!
You want ‘annoying’, try having your router upgraded to fibre, and finding out how many gadgets you have in the house that need re-acquiring. I still haven’t got all my Echo devices and Hue lights to talk to it again.
… and technology will make life easier for all …
Well, there is some truth to this. It has made it much easier to get pipe tobacco delivered right to my mailbox.
How times change – 50 years ago when the UK gas industry decided to convert the infrastructure to natural gas, all consumer appliances were either converted or replaced with new at no cost to the user.
The moves to digital TV and now digital telephony infrastructure seem to have forgotten/escaped that more honourable model. Who allowed that to happen?
Just imagine if they invented some new type of electricity and we had to change every device that uses the stuff?