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The Horror... The Horror...!!!
Jul. 30th, 2012 03:40 pmLet's get one thing straight; Best Beloved is not the most house proud of people. I don't profess to be the tidiest person on this Earth; I loathe and despise house work and I have recently got my own way and had a new dishwasher installed. There has been a blockage in the kitchen sink that has been there since I have known him - I have had someone in recently to clear the blockage; neither of us could identify what the goop was that in the pipes but at least it is clear now. The utility room was filled with trash that you had to climb over to access the washing machine; that has now been cleared and we now have installed a tumble dryer in there too. And we can now access the back garden.
But - there have been two incidents of first degree grossness that I have encountered in the four months I have been here. Number One - the fridge freezer. The freezer part died last year and I had been pestering Steve to get a new one. I finally gave up and decided to arrange it myself, so I set to measuring the old one to get an idea of what dimensions the new one should be. I measured the outside. I measured the fridge compartment. I opened the freezer compartment and was assaulted by a foul smell. I opened the top of the four freezer drawers and was greeted by a drawer full of soggy cardboard, black water and rotten food. The other three drawers revealed similar "treats". It was vile. And guess who ended up having to clear it all up before the new device arrived.
Number Two occurred today - I have been threatening to attack the kitchen cupboards for some months and booked a couple of vacation days off work. First cupboard went ok. Second cupboard, there was an odd smell and a black goop the consistency of black treacle/molasses on the bottom shelf. I started removing tins and found the culprits - a couple of old tins of fruit that had somehow leaked and rotted with the syrup used to preserve them and produced said liquid. Have ended up binning a load of stuff from that cupboard and scrubbing out with bleach.
I shudder to think what other joys await me...
But - there have been two incidents of first degree grossness that I have encountered in the four months I have been here. Number One - the fridge freezer. The freezer part died last year and I had been pestering Steve to get a new one. I finally gave up and decided to arrange it myself, so I set to measuring the old one to get an idea of what dimensions the new one should be. I measured the outside. I measured the fridge compartment. I opened the freezer compartment and was assaulted by a foul smell. I opened the top of the four freezer drawers and was greeted by a drawer full of soggy cardboard, black water and rotten food. The other three drawers revealed similar "treats". It was vile. And guess who ended up having to clear it all up before the new device arrived.
Number Two occurred today - I have been threatening to attack the kitchen cupboards for some months and booked a couple of vacation days off work. First cupboard went ok. Second cupboard, there was an odd smell and a black goop the consistency of black treacle/molasses on the bottom shelf. I started removing tins and found the culprits - a couple of old tins of fruit that had somehow leaked and rotted with the syrup used to preserve them and produced said liquid. Have ended up binning a load of stuff from that cupboard and scrubbing out with bleach.
I shudder to think what other joys await me...
