It's not only our dad's car that ain't working. On Sunday our mum came to pick us up from church, and she came bearing bad news. She had blown our TV! She switched it on, the TV did it's usual 5 minute routine of getting started accompanied with flatulence-releasing sounds (which it has been doing for the past few months now, surely that's not normal!) before there was a small pop noise and a burning smell!
This TV has had a very short history with us, and when I say short I mean only just a bit over a year short. We bought it from Bond and Bond and not so long after it stopped working, fortunately within the warranty period so we got it repaired.
So now I'm trying to gently persuade our parents to move into the 21st century and get a more reliable and larger plasma or LCD TV, but they're leaning more towards having it repaired and waiting for the price of the new TV's to come down. I've been banging on about HD coming to Freeview later this year! But they don't really know what I'm talking about..I'll just try hold them off having it repaired till Aonghas gets home so he can join the chorus. At the moment we're just putting up with the 19" TV from our bedroom which is sitting on the ground.
It's not only the TV that isn't working though. A week earlier our microwave stopped working! I think it turns on but it doesn't heat anything up! We've had to make do with heating things up in the oven and on the stove, which isn't always convenient. We're definitely planning on replacing this one!
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