RIGHT VINCENT, this is the nearest fusebox I can find to my own... to the right two mains switches that would turn the entire room off (each room has its own box and meter)... the row to the left of this has, on mine, about five what appear to be slide out box fuses with up and down on/off switches. You cannot turn the fuse ON at all, something's blown it automatically falls to off all the time, so... any advice, Vincent? Anyone? Please? I'm actually probably going to have to ring the landlord and not admit it was me turning the cooker on and falling asleep (which shouldn't blow a fuse anyhow)~ I used to sleep with the cooker on ALL NIGHT in my old place~ just to keep the room warm.Yes and the trotters: I desperately have to buy some new cooking oil as their wheel, which they seem to be rambling night and day these days and nights is SQUEAKING THE HELL OUT OF ME: AAARGH!!
Why are so many far eastern young females into this kinda candy-coloured kitch style?
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VIDEO OF THE DAY:
And in keeping with my previous Dangerous Liaisons theme; here's French and Saunders' takeoff on that film:~
Sometimes those automatic translations are horrible, but I did understand what you meant!!!
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Hi Gleds
ReplyDeleteIf you cannot get your fusebox switch to stay in the "ON" position, you can work out what is causing the problem by a process of elimination. First, switch to OFF all the individual black circuit switches and then try switching ON the main switch and *probably* you will find this main switch will stay ON. If so, then one at a time, switch back ON the individual circuit switches until the system trips OFF again and then you will know which circuit is playing up. My suspicion is that your cooker is faulty and if you can isolate this from the mains (unplug if a 13amp type)then I bet you a jam tart the main switch will stay ON. Cookers are notorious for tripping OFF circuits due to earthing issues.If you took your cooker from your old place, you may find that the new place has more sensitive electrics, and therefore the cooker is more likely to cause the circuit to trip OFF.
I was going to write something like anonymous and Nicole says she's already mentioned something like this too, she's demanding the credits ;-) hehe.
ReplyDeleteThe fact that the switch doesn't stay in the ON position means that there is still something pulling to much power. I would also vote for the cooker but it could be a combination of things.
Something in between the lines: NEVER leave your cooker on while you're asleep, you can set your house on fire with that!
The fuses on the left side could each actually represent 1 wall socket? I can imagine they did this to prevent people from hooking up high power consuming devices like cookers for silly and dangerous purposes, know what I mean? This could mean you can't actually use your cooker there.
So, unplug the cooker, try switching the fuse ON again and discuss the issue with your landlord. You haven't broken anything there's nothing to worry about. You don't have to tell him you used to sleep with the cooker on, just never do that again :-)
Good luck mate.
I agree with Vincent on all of the above. Then if that doesn't work...call the landlord but do NOT admit leaving that dang cooker on! Unplug it & put it away!
ReplyDeleteI hang my head in shame and admit that I am into all sorts of pink and candy-colored pretty things.
ReplyDeleteHello!! Been gone awhile from your blog so had to scan down some to catch up. First, don't really understand the 'Council' situation. Do you get free rooms from them? Are they for those addicted?
ReplyDeleteIs there a waiting list?
The old Bowie clip was neat. That was from so long ago.
I absolutely adore Boy George. Always have. Love his music, the way he looks, his personality! Dangerous Liasons is my absolute ALL TIME FAVORITE movie without a doubt.
"I often wonder how you managed to invent yourself"... "I wanted you before we'd ever met. My self esteem demanded it"... Awesome lines. So many more good ones.
I like Glenn Close, and love John Malcovich. They are fabulous together in the movie! Now I think that I will have to get the DVD out and watch the whole thing again soon!
Hope you adjust to your new place and find enjoyment there!
Be well. Mary
Can't help at all with the fuse box - me and electricity don't mix well. :(
ReplyDeleteMayra~Mayra~Mayra! Give your url back please!! I plunged into your blog quite randomly (do love those automatic translations of webpages, don't you??!?)... please give your address then I can come back and give fuller entertainment hahahaharrgh!!!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous: That's very detailed... I've sorted it out thanks to... well read the top (broccoli) post
Vincent: do you know I've left the cooker on gerZILLIONS of times while sleeping... I'm not saying you're wrong you're probably right it does run counterintuitive even to my vulgarizational logic... I just used to keep it on, as I said, as a ROOM HEATER for my vulgar, tawdry old accommodation. Yukk, yukk, DOUBLE YUKKIEE!!!
Velvet Ginger: oh no WAY was I going to admit to cooker. Actually was going to pretend it had all been like that to start with haha!!
ReplyDeleteDaisy: well I can't really BLAME you Daisy... even I used to own a pastel blue cordless telephone... man! how I loved that phone. Binatone. Really, really lovely and I'm not that into the physicality of possessions, technological or otherwise, but this really was on a Japanese schoolgirl's lunch box level it was fantastic. Man! I was SO GUTTED when it finally broke!
Crystal: Council housing... right in general "council flats" in Londonese means "projects" in NYC... I'm not in a council flat only emergency accommodation. The council has, by law to house certain types of people. A psychiatrist wrote a letter saying I was "vunerable" and I got in that way. There is a MASSIVE waiting list for "proper" housing, which is why people like me live for years in "temporary" but it's not that bad. My current house is all phone socketed out and besatellitedished, meaning people have felt that though technically "temporary" they were proper more permanent tenants. That should go quite flatteringly to the landlord... There is a HUGE HUGE HUGE waiting list for housing of all types. You can only get housed by jumping the queue (e.g. by being an immigrant asylum seeker and not speaking English) or by going the emergency route like I did (well had no choice was sleeping in freezing cold empty industrial building before that full of rats and people coming in as I slept defacating, shouting... foxes, cats... man! Everything!! It was bad + I was hallucinating ghosts and lights at night and skeletorlike figures opening doors... NOT NOT NOT nice SO GLAD to be out of there... wish I could BUY said place and do it up it would make a fantastic 5000-10,000 sq foot home... how I LOVED that space ... I was not designed to live in tiny areas... but how I ADORE my new house... I feel so centred there... so good... it is fantastic. I don't even want to commit suicide as much now (that's powerful housing for you! more powerful than Prozac? Wow!!!)
I loved the Dangerous Liaisons film... or Liaisons Dangereuxes/howeverthefckyouspellit (the novel was ALWAYS sold under the French title here which I found rather pretentious... the title ACTUALLY means "Dangerous AFFAIRS" ~ that casts FAR MORE LIGHT upon the subject matter... I do have to say I'm with French & Saunders on the fact that though it was a charming piece of visuality, intrigue, subterfuge and just pure watchability I totally lost the plot of it and didn't get it until I looked it up yesterday on Wikipedia!!!
Akelamalu: I got rather a nasty shock once in my WORST druggie days when I lived with a plug WITHOUT A COVER literally OPEN. Put my hand on it high on only God remembers what and a strange 240 volt tingling went right up my arm!!!
French and Saunders are my two very favourite actresses! Brilliant :)
ReplyDeleteLoved the French & Saunders skit too.
ReplyDeleteGlad you have the power back on - especially for the cooker and radio.
You asked why I don't like gravy ... goes back to childhood couldn't understand why I had to drown the Yorkshire pud making it go all soft and drippy. I'm a tomato sauce girl*!*