{"id":3711,"date":"2011-05-23T20:13:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T19:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/?p=3711"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:57:50","slug":"anything-that-can-go-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/anything-that-can-go-wrong.html","title":{"rendered":"Anything that can go wrong…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Such a destructively windy day in Scotland, yet strangely not the cause of most of what you’re about to read…<\/p>\n

[Seconds after writing that, the power cut affecting the south side of the village hits the north side too!]<\/p>\n

Took the van to the garage two weeks ago to get the exhaust checked out because of a developing (but unfamiliar) ‘throaty’ note, then back last week for new exhaust after finding the expected hole in the old one. Then back again today after (coincidentally necessary) new exhaust failed to cure said note because I’m also needing a new wheel bearing. Had also been expecting trouble with the windscreen wipers (a bit quirky from new in tangling with each other or randomly inverting once in a blue moon!) since getting a nice new windscreen last month to replace the one broken near Dalwhinnie<\/a> and, sure enough, my nearside wiper flipped last week to lightly scratch the glass (it’s the thought as much as the ‘damage’) just 20 days into its life. So took a good look at the wipers this morning, found hopeless play in the offside one, spotted marking to the trim and paintwork where they’ve been failing to stop within their designed arcs and thought I’d better get these seen to as well. At which point one (the nearside) breaks right off when we inspect them at the garage, I’m needing new arms and linkages and strongly suspecting they’ve been faulty from new (NB van’s now booked in for Thursday)!<\/p>\n

[Power just came back on.]<\/p>\n

Heading out for another wet and windy run yesterday, I pick up my almost new OMM Cypher Smock (worn just a handful of times this sodden May since a first quick test<\/a> in April, but rapidly becoming a favourite piece of running gear) to discover that the front’s badly delaminating. So email the supplier to say I’m looking for a refund (might have got a rogue sample, but couldn’t trust the eVent fabric in any like-for-like replacement) and think they might also want to pass this on to OMM… to be told today that OMM have requested the garment be sent to them for inspection before any refund, credit or replacement is issued. So not totally happy about that when it’s clearly not fit for purpose and IMHO I should have got a straight refund, but now have to play ball and send it on with a ‘detailed letter of explanation and outline of how I’ve cared for the garment’ (just worn it a few times over the past fortnight, right)! Then, to keep up the running theme, why (oh why) am I suddenly a good 2kg heavier (been working to lose weight and monitoring it daily since 1 January) after 90+ miles of trail running in a week when there’s no way I’ve taken on the calories to do that? (Thought I had a pretty good handle on all the issues but clearly don’t, although I’ve noted almost cyclic ‘blips’ in an otherwise downward trend before and hope it’s just one of those because I’ve otherwise taken a month’s step backwards!)<\/p>\n

And finally (to get back to the weather that’s destroyed so much today for other folk but not really for me), I’ve been outside trying to tie down what’s left of Fly’s cover before it self-destructs, the chimney sweep’s sensibly postponed because I was needing him to go on the roof and I’ve still no prospect of testing the new mower that arrived a fortnight ago so long as this May stays true to form. So of course it could all be worse (house could have blown down\/away), but that doesn’t mean it’s all great! :-\/<\/p>\n

PS Forgot to say I found the Co-op closed this afternoon because of the power cut, so am going to run out of milk…<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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