Before the early morning was through…
…. I also got a rendition of Sultans of Swing, followed by Tunnel of Love and Walk of Life (I’m guessing he likes Dire Straits) and something indistinguishable but possibly Rod Stewart again - this final one at around 02.15. I kept hoping he likes the Doors or similar and would put something mellow on that I would have a better chance of getting to sleep to (possible as I seem to remember hearing something similar earlier) - I did also get to listen to Sunshine of Your Love by Cream, so that was a small perk amongst the stuff I’m not so keen on.
He doesn’t usually have the music on so loud so late, but it sounded like he had company (as occasionally the singing was in stereo). I have even listened to Nirvana (during the day) so he seems fairly eclectic in taste.
We finally received a credit letter from Samsung, so after over 2 months of no working fridge (which I could rant about for hours, but TBH I’m all ranted out now) we finally went and ordered a new replacement fridge from Currys - unsurprisingly it was not a Samsung.
The wonderful bonus was that the fridge we chose was cheaper than our original fridge so we had money left over (the credit note had to be spent at Currys) to buy a breadmaker and a fryer - plus, because there was nothing else we could think of that was needed, the completely frivolous surround sound system that Rik has asked for every time we’ve gone near an electrical goods shop and I have repeatedly told him we would not buy because why should we spend money we don’t have on something we don’t really need. As there really was nothing else we could think of to buy in there I finally conceded that yes, he could use the remaining money to buy one - and we still had money left over!
The sound system is still completely frivolous as I usually watch a grand total of 3 programmes a week: Lost, Tales from the Green Valley and Scrubs, plus the occasional Horizon or Dispatches etc. We do not have the TV on before 6pm in the week (unless dh is home and then we do have a TV elsewhere which he can watch) and sometimes not at all. TBH it is only Rik who watches much TV, even the boys aren’t particularly bothered, R. is usually busy elsewhere (although he does like history programmes and dramas like Sharpe or Hornblower - he has a developing *thing* about the Napoleonic Wars) and Erk likes Malcolm in the Middle and that’s about it. Rik watches football, cricket, golf and snooker (depending on what’s on) and the occasional programme on history too, so generally the only thing that is ever on is sport of some description (makes me wonder why we pay a license fee really).
Still, we do like to watch the odd film and the sound from the thing is stunning, so I suppose it’s as close to the cinema as we can get (bearing in mind that we can’t take Nin and R. will sit there holding his ears, knees pulled up under his chin :0(
The fridge should be delivered on Wednesday, so really looking forward to that (and being able to get a delivery from the supermarket - as I’m not supposed to be pushing trolleys around or anything like that, but I couldn’t justify the delivery charge for only a few things from there as I couldn’t order other items due to non-working fridge, so I will be able to keep the physio happy too).
So here’s hoping there aren’t any further snags as I won’t completely rest until the fridge is safely ensconced in the kitchen and the big ole’ broken one has been taken away.
(Slings'n'things)
