Wow what a week this has been. The last 7 days have certainly been eventful!
Let’s start with the ‘devil scanner’. If you have seen my video from last weekend, you will know that this machine was certainly testing my patience! What should have been a quick and easy solution to a problem, turned into a challenge of who was going to give up first – me or the scanner!
My hubby has hundreds of old slides which used to belong to his father. He decided to preserve them by scanning them onto his computer. A really good idea, I know! After a bit of research he had found a company that rents scanners by the week. The scanner should take 50 slides at a time and scan them direct onto the computer! Sounds amazing!
We planned for the scanner to come on Friday 3 May so that he would have the whole bank holiday weekend to use it!
On 24 April, I am notified that the scanner has had a failed delivery! It was arriving a week early! Even though the lady who looks after my dog was at my home, the delivery man hadn’t made her aware he was there, so it was sent back to the depot.
After 4 phone calls we had arranged a delivery for the following Wednesday 1 May, so we happily went about our business that weekend. We then realised that on Saturday 25ththe scanner was delivered to a neighbour because we were out! Eek.
I contacted the company to ask when the rental was due to start and was shocked to know they had started our clock running on 24th! We had already missed a couple of days of the rental, plus we were at work during the day. How were we going to deal with all those slides in that time.
The company were great and agreed an extension until Monday 6 May. We would load it before work, straight after we got home and before going to bed. That still also gave us the bank holiday weekend. Well, until hubby realised he was in London for 2 of the days, so it was left to me to make sure the slides were running for as much as possible.
Now in theory that wasn’t going to be a problem as you just load it, set it up and leave it to run for a few hours! Or so I thought! Oh no, the ‘devil scanner’ as I have now named it had decided to jam at every opportunity. To make it worse, hubby’s car had broken down in London and I was on standby to have to go down and collect him. That would have wiped out my Sunday of scanning!
With the clock ticking away, and still 100’s of slides to get through there was only one thing for it, to work through the night on the Saturday!
With no sleep, by Sunday morning I was exhausted, but the pile had come down!
Thankfully, the garage got hubby’s car sorted enough for him to get home. The car is now sat on the drive until we get it fixed. We are now down to just my car. You don’t realise how much you rely on 2 cars until you don’t have them both!
We finally finished the slides and got the ‘devil scanner’ back in the post. I think we were both glad to see it go! It had certainly taken over our lives during the time we had it!
We decide to have a relaxing bank holiday Monday before the return to work on Tuesday.
Tuesday comes and we arrive at our train station to no trains! Some bright sparks had decided to try and steal cables to the signals which meant they couldn’t run the trains on our line. After a bit of research we drove to a different station to get one of many delayed or packed trains. Oh and for the pleasure also had to pay £12 a day parking!
The one benefit of this new station was that there were more options to get a train back! Well in theory! Not today. Oh no! A train has broken down on the line preventing trains passing, so the trains were all cancelled or very delayed.
We do eventually get a train home, but later than normal. We are in the car and looking forward to getting home. The next joy was to find the road we would take home was now closed for 10 weeks! Seriously could this day go any more wrong!
After turning around we head down the motorway! Motorways in rush hour are certainly not fun and very slow!
Finally we arrive home, late but we are home!
I decide to put some washing on! What else do you do after a day like that!
I hear the machine beep to tell me it is finished. As I pull the washing out the top clothes are dry, the bottom ones soaking! The machine drum has not been turning! Aaaah! We now have no washing machine, I car and a disaster of a trip home!
I try to get an engineer out to fix the machine but it won’t be until Monday next week! Thank you to my amazing mum who is going to let me use her machine in the meantime.
We have a reminder in our calendar that we have to do our visa applications for China so hubby and I sit down together to go through them. Him on his computer, me on my laptop! The plan was to get them done, then go and watch Countryfile in bed at 8.30 pm.
2.5 hours later we still have not completed the form! If you have ever had to do a visa for China you will know our pain! You have to put so much information in from your parents, jobs, what your managers duties are, where you have been in the last 5 years, schooling etc etc. By 10.00 am we decide we have to go to bed.
We finally finished and submitted the form last night.
Today is Friday and I am now so looking forward to the weekend. I am praying that the next few days will be far less stressful.
Tonight, the weekend will start with drinks at my local pub with hubby and friends. It’s Prosecco night, so that isn’t a bad start to the weekend is it!
Have a great weekend!
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