Don't point at him!

When we got back from the Islands yesterday (bearing in mind no-one was in our house all day) the cooker had an error message! E-84.

After a late night last night, we all got up a little bit later this morning. After breakfast we sent Small to get his bike so Grandad could put his new bell on it. Unknown to him we had hidden his bike and put his new one in there with a note saying it was from Grandma and Grandad, Moo and Huffle and me. At first he couldn't find it and then he came out with a huge grin. He was very happy. He had a ride round the garden and then we put Small's old bike seat down as low as we could and Small sold it to Smallest for $10 after much haggling. They both rode around the garden and Smallest fell off, of course. The bike is still a bit too big for him so we said he could ride it on the grass until he was more confident on it.

Grandma and Grandad got on with their packing and I wrapped up Christmas presents for them to take. When it was time for G&G to go, it was very sad. Lots of hugs and kisses and promises to Skype. This still doesn't get any easier no matter how many times it happens.

Huffle drove them to the airport in Toronto (about an hour away) and the boys got on with their homework. Smallest and I played on the trampoline and watched the clouds. We spotted a horse eating, Shaggy from Scooby Doo with his wispy beard who then turned into a Googly eyed man and a bat and a pterodactyl. We stayed there for ages while the leaves fell on our heads from the tree above. We even watched a plane fly across and wondered if it was Grandma and Grandad.

The three of us had some lunch and Huffle came home around 1pm and had his. He said the traffic was really good on the way there but quite heavy on the way home. G&G were flying from Toronto to New York (1.5 hours) then waiting for four hours for their plane from New York to Birmingham where Aunt Pear would drive them home tomorrow morning. That's a long journey. GOODBYE GRANDMA AND GRANDAD, WE HAD A LOVELY VISIT AND WE WILL MISS YOU. THANKS GRANDAD FOR BEING SUCH A GOOD SPORT AND PROVIDING US WITH LOTS OF ENTERTAINMENT. Huffle did have a message to say that they had a tough time getting through immigration which took two hours (BOOOO). All because they are coming from Canada to America and they are English!

The four of us drove off to Oshawa to get our cooker sorted. Huffle took the boys to the washroom so I met our salesman first. "Hello my name is Jason, what is yours?" HELLO MY NAME IS FAMFA. WE ACTUALLY HAVE A STORE CREDIT FOR A FAULTY STOVE WE BOUGHT FROM YOU SOME TIME AGO. "I will go and speak to my Manager and check for you". Meanwhile Huffle came back and we started to look at stoves. Jason comes back and says "Hello my name is Jason what is your name?" MY NAME IS HUFFLE AND MY NAME IS FAMFA "oh yes you told me sorry I have a bad memory".

To cut a long story short, we found a Gas stove we liked and it had a gas oven too with a griddle on the top. It was reduced by $900 and fell within our budget of what we were going to get back plus enough for us to get the gas fitted through to the kitchen too. Bargain! Huffle and I were in good spirits and Jason couldn't believe we weren't cross or miserable despite our problems with the previous stove. We had a look around while Jason sorted our paperwork out and we went to see if our old one was still being sold. It was, though it was reduced by $700 and guess what it had on the display? E-84 and it wasn't even being used. It was just plugged in and it had the same error. How funny is that?

The one we bought (being delivered Oct 8). And the error messaging evil one in the store!

We told Jason that another salesman had told us that once we had cooked with induction we would never want to cook on anything else again and that that particular salesman was in the store there today. "Don't tell me who it is" he said. We laughed and started to point him out. "Oh no, don't point at him, you don't know how much trouble I could get into to". "Please don't ruin my commission, I've had a terrible time recently with people here". He was very unintentionally funny. Long and lanky with an oversized ill fitting suit. I'm glad he has got our commission. One of the other salesman was wearing an Arsenal top so of course we gave him a bit of grief. It turned out he lived in Loughborough for many years. It's a small world. When we left he said he would call us when Arsenal beat Stoke.

We wandered around the mall looking for presents for Small and managed to get him tin sign for his bedroom and we all had an ice cream. Shopping all together is not normally a pleasant experience but today it was nice just poddling around.

Huffle and the boys having fun in Dollarama

We left as we knew that the babysitter would be coming round to meet us and we drove home. We started dinner and planned where some plants would go and then the babysitter and her mum arrived. Both of them very nice. The girl who is going to sit for us so we can go to Kasabian on Tuesday was not silly and seemed very normal and grounded. We explained bedtimes etc and chatted for a while and then they were gone, I feel much happier now and am happy to leave them. It seems in only a couple of years Small can babysit anyway as soon as he get his babysitting licence and does a few first aid and home alone courses.

We all had dinner which seemed strange and the table seemed much bigger without Grandma and Grandad. After dinner the boys and Huffle played basketball but not for long as there was much scuffling and a bit of pushing! Huffle came in and watched The Ryder Cup unaware that Europe had won and the boys watched separate NetFlix in their rooms on the IPads.

At bedtime Smallest and I did a puzzle of the World and Small and I finished drawing a comic strip for the Beano. Huffle and I watched some 24 with a cuppa and a piece of SMALL'S pre-birthday cake.

 

 

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