We have been on holiday for the last few weeks. (That sort of explains why there haven’t been any new posts here for a while, but since we’ve had internet access while we’ve been away it’s quite a poor excuse.)

Anyway, we got back late on Thursday night and plugged things back in that we had unplugged before we went away. For instance, we unplugged our phones on the basis that we weren’t going to be around and there was no point having them turned on all the time. When we turned them on, they both worked properly, but then over the weekend, they were both beeping and the screen of one of them was completely blank. I thought that they were just not sitting properly on their bases which was why they were beeping and the blank screen was just because the battery had run down.

We made sure they were sitting nicely on their bases, but they still didn’t work. It seems that somehow, the screen of one of them no longer works properly (it’s probably been dropped too many times by children). The other phone works okay, but seems to be a bit problematic when you want to do anything.

So that is one thing.

The other is our car battery.

It’s a new battery that we got replaced only 18 months ago because the garage told us that the original one was not very good quality and had also run down in the space of two weeks. This one was meant to be a lot better and on our previous holiday that lasted 2 weeks it was fine. This time, we were away for 3 weeks and when we got back, the battery was dead as a doornail. It didn’t even have enough juice in it to beep when we pressed the alarm button on our keychain. The breakdown people arrived and gave us a jump start and then told us that the battery was no good and needs replacing. This seems very weird to me. The car is due for a service so we’ll ask them what we can do. It gets quite expensive if you have to replace the car battery every time you go on holiday.

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