When we came home from a stay at the coast last week Thursday, we had a surprise - although not a nice one! Wanting to put on the radio (always the first thing I do), we discovered that the emergency circuit of our electricity had gone down - no juice anywhere and a fridge and freezer full of rotting food...
It took all afternoon to dispose of this rotting food and clean out the fridge and freezer for the first time. The stench remained and it took a lot more cleaning to get it reasonably clean. We intend to wait for a while (tomorrow we return to the coast for another good two weeks) and see how it's then. When there is still some stench later in August, we'll need to buy a new fridge and a new freezer. I set aside some money each month for such emergencies.
Then the next task was finding an electrician who could come and see what the problem is. Easier said than done! Finally we found a guy who was not on holiday and could come the next day. He did a thorough research job on Saturday with some temporary repairs, and we agreed he can do the full job later this month and revise the electricity system so that everything is in order.
Because of this unexpected problem, we had to cancel our trip to Strasbourg. Normally we should have left on Saturday. We postponed it to the end of October, when there is the autumn break at school.
This is what can happen when you live in an old house. We try to keep everything in order, but things can happen and give you nasty surprises. (Well, probably in a new house there will be some problems too.)
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