Carpet Wars
posted by Missus Boot at 23:56
I am starting to regret being happy about my 'safe' electricity supply. The RCD is still tripping whenever the bathroom and stair lights are swiched on or off (sort it out, Martin Gates Electrical Engineers of Leighton Buzzard) and now the electricity is conspiring with the carpet to kill me.

When the electricians did all the underfloor wiring stuff, they ripped the stair carpet but said that they would replace it, so that was all gravy. But they haven't replaced it, it is still here, torn, flopping, stringing, annoying, psychotic.

I now have a lovely set of really steep Victorian cottage stylie stairs with a carpet that acts like a trip wire and no light. I have found that this set-up is a really efficient way of decorating the walls with the brown of tea spillage, breaking plates and cups, ripping the bannister off the wall with the force of one fall, and doing painful things to wrists, knees, elbows and backs.