Damned mice/rat ate another hole in the repaired washer’s hose. So I’ve bought a front-loader instead - it has no openings where such critters can get inside. I’ll have the top-loader repaired again & sell it.
@jextxadore I have no idea. Apparently the original Behemoth IPA is one of the highest-alcohol brews made in Oz.
@larand In 2003 she gave Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Abdullah a big scare while taking him on a tour of her Scottish Balmoral estate.
http://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/this-female-wwii-veteran-terrified-a-saudi-king-while-driving-him-around
She had trained as a driver & mechanic in the Auxiliary Territorial Service in WW2.
@jextxadore Here’s something for you to envisage: Behemoth Aged Spirit. https://www.theshout.com.au/news/archie-rose-and-kaiju-collaborate-on-new-aged-spirit/
@larand We get them fairly frequently here, usually around 70 km to the south-east. Depth is typically around 10 km or so, damage minimal although minor roads closer to the epicentre are sometimes affected with landslips. Richter-scale events of 7 & 8 are not uncommon.
Most times there's a sudden abrupt vertical jolt. Several years ago we has a weird one, though. It was a wriggly motion, an old school friend on Twitter likened it to sitting on top of a washing machine on its spin cycle. This went on for at least 35 seconds.
The typical epicentre is home to Megascolides australis, the giant Gippsland earthworm that makes a distinctive gurgling & rumbling noise as it moves deep underground. These critters are normally around a metre long although specimens 3 or 4 times that length have been found.
Local aboriginal legend says the tremors are caused by the giant worms.
I almost said I was ropable when I blurbed my angry status earlier, then I realised not many of you would understand this Australian/New Zealand colloquialism.
Ropable = extremely angry, as the Mac's dictionary app says- late 19th century derivation: from the notion that the person requires to be restrained.
Still seething & ferociously ANGRY after 11 hours.
Just before heading out this morning I started up the repaired washing machine. I had to go back inside cos I forgot something & damned glad I did.
The FUCKING machine was leaking again in exactly the same way. NINE days after being "fixed," repairman can't get here until Friday.
I spent 20 minutes with a wet & dry vacuum cleaner sucking up & dumping water. I grabbed all the towels & sheets & stuff used last time for the mop-up and chucked them on the floor again.
Repairman said he has to waive the callout fee because he'd last visited under 3 months ago. 9 days. FUCK.
Won't bother with breakfast today, it's the 1st Wednesday of the month, this means our Men's Shed group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27sshed gets snacks, cakes, slices, sandwiches provided by the local CWA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CountryWomen%27s_Association ladies.
It's a mutual backscratch operation: we help them out with projects or construction/maintenance jobs & they give us a good feed once each month.