Long story short, Papa was both an engineer (so he could fix things, and it genuinely was the case that all sorts of scraps might come in useful) and a hoarder... and probably autistic, with the result that he was easily distractable and prone to executive dysfunction (often via falling down the rabbit hole of the thing in front of him and sort of forgetting anything else existed)...
... so when the first breadmaker broke, he pushed it to one side (to fix, eventually), having carefully labelled the interior tin with the nature of the problem and possible workarounds, and got another to use until he got around to fixing it.
This is also why there were two dead dishwashers and a broken washing machine in the garage.
I will report back on the wardrobe, I promise!
Pristine LPs: they were in a cardboard box, and all in their sleeves; it was only the uppermost one that was particularly spidered, in a general on-top-of-the-mahogany-wardrobe Climate of Spider.
Commission: in the British Army, a commissioned officer is what one thinks of as "an officer"; non-commissioned officers include corporals and sergeants. A commission is the piece of paper bestowing the rank of commissioned officer on someone, signed by All The Top Brass and sometimes by the reigning monarch (if they haven't got bored and set up a rubber stamp).
HAHAHAHA NO I HAVEN'T FOUND THE ICE CREAM MAKER YET. I will be watching removals from the garage like a HAWK.
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Date: 2019-01-03 02:54 am (UTC)... so when the first breadmaker broke, he pushed it to one side (to fix, eventually), having carefully labelled the interior tin with the nature of the problem and possible workarounds, and got another to use until he got around to fixing it.
This is also why there were two dead dishwashers and a broken washing machine in the garage.
I will report back on the wardrobe, I promise!
Pristine LPs: they were in a cardboard box, and all in their sleeves; it was only the uppermost one that was particularly spidered, in a general on-top-of-the-mahogany-wardrobe Climate of Spider.
Commission: in the British Army, a commissioned officer is what one thinks of as "an officer"; non-commissioned officers include corporals and sergeants. A commission is the piece of paper bestowing the rank of commissioned officer on someone, signed by All The Top Brass and sometimes by the reigning monarch (if they haven't got bored and set up a rubber stamp).
HAHAHAHA NO I HAVEN'T FOUND THE ICE CREAM MAKER YET. I will be watching removals from the garage like a HAWK.