{"id":4911,"date":"2013-06-27T20:27:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T19:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=4911"},"modified":"2013-06-27T20:27:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T19:27:31","slug":"we-have-a-problem-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/we-have-a-problem-houston\/","title":{"rendered":"We have a problem, Houston…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I received a note this morning from Leroy Merlin letting me know that my two worktops had arrived, so I drove across to Chancelade this afternoon to pick them up. A young warehouse chap helped me to lift them onto my car roof bars and it was immediately obvious that they are both heavy. Like really<\/em> heavy! So my car is now parked outside my house with them still on its roof – and I have absolutely no idea how I’ll be able to get them off. And when I do manage to, how I’ll then be able to handle them so I can cut them down to size.<\/p>\n

They can stay where they are for the time being as there’s no rain forecast for a day or so, although I have no idea what I’ll do if I have to go anywhere in the car in the meantime. Presumably as they’ve come all the way from the other side of Perigueux to my house without any problems, I’d have to take them with me \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

On a brighter note, I seem to have got the valve that I fitted to the inlet side of my electric water heater to stop weeping. The leak was around the valve stem and I’ll have to watch it now to make sure it stays dry. The valve on the outlet side is perfectly OK, of course. Why there had to be a problem with one goodness only knows \ud83d\ude15 I also found that the water was coming out scalding hot! When I checked the thermostat, it looked from the markings as though it was on the lowest setting. However, I turned it to a setting mid-way on the scale and my electricity meter didn’t indicate any jump in current, so I just have to assume that the settings are the other way round to what you logically expect them to be ie the red mark is on the ‘cold’ end of the scale. C’est la France \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I received a note this morning from Leroy Merlin letting me know that my two worktops had arrived, so I drove across to Chancelade this afternoon to pick them up. A young warehouse chap helped me to lift them onto my car roof bars and it was immediately obvious that they are both heavy. Like … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4912,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4911\/revisions\/4912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}