Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep !!

Whenever we commit to something financially, something MORE URGENT seems to go wrong, and the assigned money is usually spent ( see: a beautifully completed deck, and then finding out we are one step away from electrical death )

At least this time we were only MENTALLY committed to the fence, front garden, driveway, gates, watertank, watering system and etc.

Because today we woke up, and while I had a lovely lie-in, the street's electricity went out. No biggie. Mine husband ( today is his day off ) went for a walk and came back with a latté and a danish for me, while I sat in the front room ( gas fireplace ) with my wet hair wrapped up in a towel. Nice !

It was when the power came back ON that things got hairy.
My el crappo wall oven, which I hate anyway, and is always a b*tch after having its power interferred with went EL BERKO. Crazy.

And that noise ?
TWICE as loud and eight times more annoying in real life.

I did all my usual dial-tweaking tricks, and ended up smacking it with the palm of my hand, like you do when a Vending Machine takes your last dollar.
Then AB hit it too, which made the Master dissolve into a fit of giggles.
Quality Parenting in Action.

The beeping was incessant, annoying.
I shut both doors to the kitchen, and then went to the bedroom and shut the door. I determined we would be able to sleep tonight without hearing it. ( BTW: turn it off at the switch ? - Yeah, well, we think it's buried in the wall BEHIND the oven, where it's unreachable )

Sooooo, we decided to go to Clive Peeters .. just for a look.

And there was a deal on until this Sunday, and the deal was fine.
An oven, stovetop, rangehood, splashback, cookery classes and a pot 'n' pan set for the regular price of just an oven.

Will that be cash .. or credit ?

We signed.
We're still in shock, even though it was always on the cards, there's other things that were supposed to come first.

I still feel slightly sick about it all.

We came home and the oven was still going nuts.
Then I remembered ... the new powerbox has a special switch marked 'wall oven'.
I clicked it off. No more buzzing. Clicked it back on again. Buzzing.

So the oven is off, unoperational, but still functional if I can put up with the noise.

Stay tuned for more dramas as they unfold.

( P.S. - for reasons you don't want to know, at one stage I had to crawl along the carpet of the Clive Peeters Store, and knelt on a thumb-tack, which promptly nailed my skirt to my leg. Lucky it wasn't my full weight, but plucking a thumbtack out of my knee like it was a particularly firm corkboard was not a cool moment. In fact, it was rather oogy. My son kissed the blood away, and I am walking without the need of a crutch, thanks for asking. )