When your sword fails, you draw your dagger – and so it is, friends, that I find myself here instead of writing my short stories because for some reason my document has frozen. This reminds me of a most brilliant sketch, the best thing I’ve seen since the Two Ronnies’ ‘Four Candles’ and clearly a modern hommage to it, which was this:
It’s brilliantly written, so if you haven’t yet watched, take a look. I think it’s easily as good as the classic hardware shop sketch.
Hang on, let’s see if my document’s still frozen or if it’s thawed a bit. Nope, seems to be a problem with open office. Back to Word then…
It’s been a day for problems. This morning I heard a disturbing trickling sound: at first I thought it was just the bath emptying but then I realised that water was coming from the base of a cupboard. Weird. It was also trickling through the ceiling. Something was clearly wrong: I went upstairs to find Mark mopping the bathroom floor with a succession of towels. It seems that the automatic plug thingy, which had stopped working a while back, had come unscrewed from its moorings. It appears that this device performed an essential job in draining the bath and was now not performing it, due to lying on its side on the floor. I got the side of the bath off and tried to screw it in again: however the assembly is broken (which is why it stopped working in the first place) and so I shall have to get a new one. In the meantime the bath is out of bounds so if you were thinking of coming round to have a soak, you’re out of luck.
Sometimes it seems there’s a theme to your day. I’m not sure how an overflowing bath, a broken plug and a frozen document all add up but I’m working on it. Can’t do a thing with the document. Hey, do you remember a time when women supposedly used to say ‘I’ve just washed my hair and I can’t do a thing with it? What were they were expecting to do with it, I ask myself. Perhaps my hair can sort out the frozen document and the broken bath plug?
Nope, for the latter I think I’m going to have to go to the hardware store. I wonder if they sell fork handles?
Kirk out
Sarada Gray 