Posts made in August 13th, 2025

1. A Catalogue of Catastrophes

Posted by on 13, Aug 2025 in 2025 - Europe, Benelux, Europe, Germany, Tilly the Tandem | 1 comment

1. A Catalogue of Catastrophes

It’s not often Ten Tonne Taffy gets a mentioned in dispatches these days, but lately she’s had a rough time, doing nothing but being our home. Firstly, I got up one night to go to the loo, one of the joys of getting older, and smelt that plasticky electric burning smell. I switched off the power and went back to bed after checking nothing was on fire and the next day took the fuse board cover off and found that the immersion wire had burned completely through and melted some other wires and fuses. A close call! A close call… It turns out that the screw for that wire...

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