Grrrrr! Or some other frustrated noise!

We had a very frustrating weekend. We had the electrician man around to fit the new electric hob on Saturday while I was at my revision course. The hob got fitted ok, but when he was running the new cable he found that the people who did our house before had nailed the floorboard down and stuck the nail through a live plug socket cable. It was very lucky that we did not use that socket as they had also left all the sawdust from hollowing out the beam to run the cable which would have caught fire from the sparks from the wire and caused a fire under our bed! So that is all fixed now and all the other electrics checked and safe!

Sunday we went to fit the sink but the Ikea waste fittings didn't quite fit our existing pipes and Homebase didn't sell a converter (by this point it was also 3:40 so a mad dash to B&Q was out of the question) so we had to file the pipe to fit! Then the flexi pipes that came with the tap didn't have thread on the screw so we couldn't fit that either! They are sending out a replacement part which is good, but we are without a sink for a bit longer. Of course that means that minimal washing up has been done in the bathroom sink for the past 10 days so I am running out of pans! Plus bacause the waste hasn't been fitted we haven't got a washing machine so we're running out of clean clothes too!

Then I got the summer duvet out the attic to find it was all wet because we have a leak in our roof! We have some broken tiles I think because it goes chink when I poke the felt. We had a bloke out last night who said it was a few broken tiles under the flashing round the chimney. The flashing and the top tile also hadn't been fitted quite properly so the flashing is leaking and then the water is running through the broken tiles. The price he gave was a lot more reasonable than we expected but we have a second bloke coming round at the weekend to have a look. The good news is that all the rest of the tiles look to be in good condition and we don't need a new roof!

On the plus side though my revision course was really good.