How to mend a dish washer in 10 easy steps

The problem - Dish Washer trips the electricity circuit breaker

1. Spend ages on the Internet to identify a faulty heating element.  Order new one

2. Heater element arrives in the post

3. Strip dish washer and use tissue to clean the bit that makes the element water tight

4. For no good reason take out the filters that stop bad stuff getting into the guts of the machine

5. Rebuild and throw away all the screws left over

6. Go back onto the internet to find out why its not cleaning dishes

7. Spend hours completely taking the machine apart so you can get the pump out, dismantle pump and remove the tissue that has clogged it.

8. Reassemble. Throw away some more screws. Test the washer before fitting back into the kitchen cupboard

9 Forget to turn the water back on so the element overheats

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More blood in Otley

Spring has come on all in a rush.  Everywhere animals and birds are giving birth and preying on each other.  The Sparrow Hawk being at the top of the tree in both senses.  He sits there and dives as the Moorhen chicks follow their mother for food on the grass.   

Moorhens are pretty noisy most of the time but the scream she gives off when the Sparrow Hawk dives is unearthly.   After a week she had one left out of 5.

Something also got the mother blackbird.  I hope it wasn't one of the evil cats that invade our garden.  Given the stress that birds and small creatures are under why do people think it acceptable to introduce  yet another predator!!   Anyway the result was a nest full of dead chicks.  Even these were eaten after a few days

All the large fish in our pond have disappeared.  Either a mink or otter is using the pond as a convenient larder.   Frustratingly the mink trap is often triggered but empty!!

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