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Alright, 7 hours after the issue with the electrics was first noticed, the sparky finally sorted it. Apparently in our main connection box thing (the little black box that connects the main street wires to the house) had a lose connection inside. Apparently that can manifest as crackling in power points, lamps flickering, fire panels making grinding noises, emergency lights going on and smoke alarms acting funny. And, I’m going to sound like a houso here (interestingly, urgent after hours repairs in state care homes are handled by the housing commission maintenance people too), but that was absolutely cooked in the head
But goodness, I’ve always been taught to be like really scared of electricity which I suppose makes sense, but then the electrician is just plodding around with live mains wires and poking them with plyers. That definitely did reassure me that I would’ve been safe though
Also I need to be up in 6 hours, but naturally I’m here bitching on Lemmy about electricity instead of sleeping. Night peoples, and don’t fuck with electricity, unless you’re a confident sparky, in which case, poke away with plyers as much as you’d like!
That’s good that it’s all fixed now but seriously if your power board doesn’t have a safety switch please get one that does.
I think it does? I’m not sure, it’s a fairly cheap one from Kmart but from memory I thought that all the boards Kmart sold had surge protection. I wouldn’t really know how to find out, but I’m like 95% sure it does
It’ll have a little red button on it. It’s a reset button. You hold it in for a few seconds to activate.
She seems to have that invisible touch…
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good night everyone, sweet dreams 😘
Can’t sleep. Shoveled potting mix into the rest of the pots and sowed the second lot of grass seeds as the first are finally sprouting. I didn’t bother burying them at all, cbf soaking them, just a quick water and straight to the windowsill.
I’ll sort out the carrots and spinach tomorrow. I have perpetual spinach too which are a kind of beet grown for tops but not a spare pot for them
