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Today is my last day at work this week. Tonight I shall drive to Liz's and tomorrow morning we shall drive to The Summer Sundae for much festival goodness. Air are headlining on Sunday so I shall be a very happy bunny :)

MOT Madness

I forgot to mention the car. The other day I got an email from my Dad saying that my Mum had been driving her car around without a valid MOT since the first of July. Worse still she reckoned that my car was due at the same time. Shit! After work I went straight to Halfords and spent £40 on bits and pieces to try and get the car up to scratch before booking it in for an MOT.

I bought new wipers, some "glass cutter" and rain repellent, some special non-smear wipes for the inside of the windows, and a new bulb. I fitted the various new bits and pieces then applied the "glass cutter" and rain repellent. After all this I went inside to look the paperwork out ready to book an MOT and checked the date the MOT was due on. 26th of November 2004.

10 seconds later I was on the phone to my Mum and I was NOT in a good mood! Ah well, at least the car has had some stuff done to it. The rain repellent is quite cool, all the water just swishes straight off the screen, so it should be good if I should get caught in torrential rain - as I did on Sunday. The wiper blades are silent and don't smear water like the old ones did. It's most noticeable on the rear wiper which used to judder all the way across the screen and then screech all the way back again. After each wipe there would be approximately 0.01% less water on the rear screen, so it was long overdue a new wiper.

"Press"

You may or may not remember that when I moved into my last flat I discovered a switch in the kitchen that just said "Press". No explanation as to what it did or anything, and I made a point of not pressing it as I didn't want to spoil the mystery. In fact I just assumed that it was for the extractor fan and left it at that. I never needed the fan as the windows were permanently wide open anyway.

The flat I am in now also has one of these buttons. Again I assumed it was for the extractor fan. That is until the other day when one of my flatmates had one of his friends round. Said friend was commenting on the button. I said I thought it was for the extractor fan. He said that he'd pressed it and it didn't do anything. To demonstrate he pressed it.

At this point I realised the button itself wasn't even the kind of button I had originally thought it was. I thought it was an on/off style switch, like a light-switch. But no, it is actually built like a light-switch, but you have to hold it down else it will spring back to its original position. Pressing it does nothing. Holding it does nothing. The friend of my flatmate said that his flat downstairs was exactly the same. Odd. Perhaps holding all the buttons in all the kitchens does something? This introduces 2 questions:

1. Just what does the button do?

2. How the hell do we turn on the extractor fan?!