Full day

 It was an uncharacteristically busy day. The Silver Vixen had Pilates in Angmering, for the first time in ages and the Gorse Fox had football in Worthing. We set off for our respective trips at much the same time.

Football was somewhat unbalanced, as usual when Jack chooses the teams. We were under the cosh from the get go and by half time were 5-2 down (and they had had a couple of goals disallowed). It was hard work, but we did seem to stem the flow in the second half.

Back home, showered, and fed the Gorse Fox waited for Darren and for the dishwasher engineer. Darren turned up first and proceeded to spend most of the afternoon running new armoured cable from the garage to the rill plug. It was hard work as the cable was so stiff. He eventually go it all in place and wired it up (without fitting the cover on the power socket). The rill burst into life. Brilliant. Then it was a matter of closing up the plug socket. That's where it started to cause problems. There just was not sufficient space in the pattress to accommodate all of the wires and close it up. As soon as we tried, the fuse blew. Several attempts were made to solve the problem. Several attempts failed. He called a friend. He is a qualified sparky so be able to sort it out when he calls.

The dishwasher engineer called. It goes without saying that the dishwasher worked perfectly when the Gorse Fox tried to demonstrate the problem. He decided to check everything and concluded that it was probably the micro sensor on the door. He readjusted position and balance of the unit and went through several test runs. They all worked. We must conclude that was the problem. He revealed that the insurance company that the Gorse Fox had inadvertently spoken to yesterday just called him. For this service they charge an extra £50, then they uplift the price of any parts that are needed... examples he quoted were a £15 valve being charged at £68, and £60 part being charged at £160. "Go Assist" have now been deleted from our list of contacts.