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Fairygodmother said:
It’s only on the running cycle. Good news though, a plumber’s booked to call and fix it this afternoon so keeping my fingers crossed. Thought one was coming yesterday but he/she was detained by other jobs. Machine will be washed in soapy water a second time in prep: the cleanest washing machine on the planet. I’ll let you know the diagnosis, the cause and the prescription when it’s all done. I reckon it’s probably the connection to the outlet hose. You?
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Did you remove th epanel at the bottom front and clean the filter (if there's one there and you'd get a small leak undoing it) sometimes you can get a coin/fluff stuck down there and it leaks till you remove it
 
Fairygodmother said:
It’s only on the running cycle. Good news though, a plumber’s booked to call and fix it this afternoon so keeping my fingers crossed. Thought one was coming yesterday but he/she was detained by other jobs. Machine will be washed in soapy water a second time in prep: the cleanest washing machine on the planet. I’ll let you know the diagnosis, the cause and the prescription when it’s all done. I reckon it’s probably the connection to the outlet hose. You?
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Or the outlet pipe clogged by soap residue. Of course, that would never happen in this house. No. No. Never......

If it is the clogged outlet pipe, it's simple and cheap to remedy, unless all your plumbing is hidden. That being the case I'd invest in some ear plug for the comments.
 
ArtemisBow said:
Morning all, woke to a 9 here, fasting levels are a bit all over the place at the moment thanks to a breastfeeding baby who SOMETIMES sleeps through. Really difficult to get it right when you don’t know if you’ll be up at 2am with someone stealing your sugar or not. Would love to get a 5 badge again, used to have one most days.
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@ArtemisBow you will get a badge, it's taken me ages to find mine again and sometimes the badges fairy steals it during the night.
Good tip about collecting medicine from the chemist @DCUKMod
 
Fairygodmother said:
It’s only on the running cycle. Good news though, a plumber’s booked to call and fix it this afternoon so keeping my fingers crossed. Thought one was coming yesterday but he/she was detained by other jobs. Machine will be washed in soapy water a second time in prep: the cleanest washing machine on the planet. I’ll let you know the diagnosis, the cause and the prescription when it’s all done. I reckon it’s probably the connection to the outlet hose. You?
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Without actually looking at it I couldn't stick my neck out.. Certaily don't sound like it's on the inlet side.
& I would concur with @kev-w 's comment. As a check point.
Depending on what machine it is? The internal connections remind me a little (from. My experience.) of the coolant system around a car engine?? I may just be a lose internal hose clip? Especially if you've had some heavy loads offset in the spin cycle..?
(Which as a sepperate issue could throw the drum drive belt off too. On certain models..)

Lol. Please by all means keep me updated.. :)
 
Just a quick one from me as home schooling - hope everyone is staying well and keeping sane ?

I woke at 3am hypo and convinced I had the virus as I was sweating profusely, needless to say it was the hypo and a touch of paranoia induced by the hypo - apart from that BG levels are the best they’ve ever been this year so being at home is good for my t1 !
 
Greeting fellow pumpers and prickers. Hope you are all keeping safe and well

Woke to slightly low 3.9 at 1 am, 4 jelly babies taken but still woke up to a 3.6. Had my same brekkie as yesterday 2 slices of seeded bread. yesterdays BG soared to 13.6 after the bread, today its stayed a constant 6.6. Not done anything different either. Its a funny old game this type 1

Day 3 of working from home and all still OK. Got a decent connection through my works VPN and I am just as busy as normal. On the plus side I get to listen to Planet Rock radio all day.

I need to go to chemist to pick up prescription BUT the queue is taking around 1.5 hours to collect and has been for a few weeks now. Will maybe think about it later.

Hope you are all keeping well and sane
 
smc4761 said:
I need to go to chemist to pick up prescription BUT the queue is taking around 1.5 hours to collect and has been for a few weeks now.
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That is along time and my script is ready to pick up, so I may leave it until tomorrow or Friday, as I have stayed in for 4 days now, but keeping busy.
Take care.
 
Waves at everyone from a socially safe distance!

I think all my systems ground to a halt about 11.30 this morning, and there was about to be a tantrum, so rather than frighten the neighbours with that, I took sensible action. So, after a bath, some lunch, and a nap, I am feeling much more refreshed and ready to face things again. I likes my usual routines I does and re-establishing a new normal always tired me out. Which I'd kind of forgotten.

I've convinced my two piano pupils that a weekly phone call to check on them will do the trick for now!
 
Afternoon, just sat down as it was tea o'clock time. I have been gardening, planting bulbs, moving pots about, had lunch in the garden, read two chapters of my book and then did some knitting ( I am knitting my little granddaughter a cardigan) I do miss her, but daughter is sending video's and we had a video chat on Mother's day :happy:
ps I messaged my daughter to thank her for my Mothers day card, it arrived today, even though my daughter posted it a week ago and she only lives about 12 miles away lol :rolleyes:
 
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A heads up for an update on COVID-19 tonight:
CORONA VIRUS:YOUR ESSENTIAL UPDATE, BBC 1@ 7.30pm.
 
Just bback from a 15.32 mile bike ride, mostly off road but another sugar drop with 3 miles to go so I stopped for 10 mins till it started moving back up and it dropped again by the time I got thru the door, basal issue as I'm using 2u more than usual as I had cold last week.

Good fun tho :)
 
kev-w said:
Just bback from a 15.32 mile bike ride, mostly off road but another sugar drop with 3 miles to go so I stopped for 10 mins till it started moving back up and it dropped again by the time I got thru the door, basal issue as I'm using 2u more than usual as I had cold last week.

Good fun tho :)
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Move aside Bradley. Big bad Kev coming through.:)
 
kev-w said:
He's just walked around Morrisons like John Wayne used to walk :p
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The last time i saw someone walking like John Wayne in a shop.? The guy was trying to shoplift booze down his joggers?
Serious..

Tomorrow, I will be getting out the old window cleaning gear. & doing my gaff.
I managed to score white vinegar!
 
If I do my own I'll have neighbours wanting theirs doing too so the ladders are in the back garden being used for shoulder presses and stuff, I invented the 5l paint pot kettlebell today which will be good till the handle falls off and causes swear words to come out of it...
 
kev-w said:
If I do my own I'll have neighbours wanting theirs doing too so the ladders are in the back garden being used for shoulder presses and stuff, I invented the 5l paint pot kettlebell today which will be good till the handle falls off and causes swear words to come out of it...
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Oddly enough. Once I get going.
I'm wondering if it will be like the old days.. "Yooo hooo, mr window cleaner.! Can you do mine?? Do you also clean out guttering??"

Lol, we're all in bungalows round here.. ;) Piece of the proverbial..
 
Thank you @kev-w, @Jaylee and @DUKMod for washing machine suggestions. I wish I could try them all out but I’m still a 3 hour train journey, half hour walk and 15 minute bus ride away from the dastardly machine. It’s a two year old Beko, had it’s filter cleaned out recently, and the leak’s from its rear. Yes, it’s only two, a mere toddler. The plumber failed to get there today, he was the only one, out of about five in the firm, who was working and he’d travelled all over the shop: Nottingham, Middleton, Ashby, and a fair few other places in between, like the ball in a pinball machine. He rang at 6.30 saying he could do it at 7 but I told him to go home and have a meal and a good night’s sleep. Don’t want him prone from exhaustion. Fingers crossed he’ll arrive at 9 tomorrow and clean clothes will be possible again. Luckily the clothes of the inhabitant who’d just flow in from Geneva were the load that coincided with the onset of the leak. Just as well it’s a delayed mend as I remembered later this evening that there’s a separate mains supply, and stopcock tap, for the old outside loo and store that the machine’s in. The current inhabitants, two sisters, are post-Geneva-arrival isolating. They’re remarkably cheerful about the wait: two really nice young women.
I’ll update when I know more.
 
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