19th February, 2026.
Yay!
Money’s turned up!
OK: ten pounds (£10) has turned up.
I bought a new toast, last week: ending up with a free one, as a result of Amazon not telling me there was a backlog on the cheaper one I’d ordered.
I’m not complaining, too much: Amazon’s good will gesture — a £10 gift card — turned into two gift cards.
Which, along side the refunded £4·99 gift from the last mistake Amazon made, meant I got a toaster worth £19·99 for free.
Complete with a warming rack, I should add.
All I had to do, after that … ?
Was wait for the associated cash refund.
That turned up, yesterday.
Which is handy timing.
I could do with a loaf.
Prices in Brentwood are ridiculous … !
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On the down side … ?
I noticed, on Tuesday, that there seemed to be some minor issues with my TV.
Stuttering sounds and signal cutout, listening to Radio Four, for the most part.
It got worse, yesterday: more cutting out, and serious pixelation, watching the BBC News channel.
I’ve also had to retune my TV about half a dozen times: more, in the last day, than in the last year.
So … ?
I sent a WhatsApp message to the neighbour, to ask if anyone else was affected.
There’s at least one.
So I was able to phone my landlords, and report it as a communal repair: an urgent one, as there’s vulnerable adults in the building.
That, I’m told, is going to be some twenty-four hours from the time of my call.
I think I know what’s happened: I believe rain water, from the past few weeks worth of bad weather has got into the cabling that goes into the Junction box on the top floor.
Hopefully, the engineer will be able to diagnose the problem, and repair it, quickly.
This is as frustrating as it ever was.
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