As we’re expecting 42 degrees today my day started off at 7.00 am while it was still relatively cool. I set off Isward the robot to mow the front grass which it has done successfully many times previously. But not today. It got half-way through before deciding to head off into the long grass on the boundary with the adjacent field. I reset it, set it off again and it did it again shortly after in the same place.
A GPS problem? Anyway, I restarted it and after a while it decided to once again head out of the lawn boundary onto my driveway. So I then remapped the lawn entirely, cancelled the first mow and set it off again and later it decided to head off yet again into the adjacent field in the same place, at which time I decided to give up on mowing the lawn for today and concentrate on the next pair of shutters which I’d washed earlier after removing all their furniture. By this time it was after lunch and after all my trials with Isward I thought that it would be a relief getting back to something as simple as rubbing down and undercoating the shutters.
Wrong! Almost as soon as I started rubbing down the first one the trestles that the pair were lying on collapsed. It appeared that all the trestles that I’d purchased were cheap for a reason – their frameworks are all tongue and grooved but the tongues had never been glued or otherwise fixed in the grooves. No problem, I thought. Just the job for my trusty new nail gun. And so it would have been, except after the first 20 or staples one jammed in the nose of the gun and I can see no simple way of getting the jammed piece out as in trying to do so it has broken off on both sides.
I’ve contacted the Chinese supplier to find out what to do but for the time being the gun is partially in bits on newspaper in my kitchen. And it’s still only 3.00 pm so plenty of time left for lots more things to go wrong. I’m waiting in expectation…
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