This actually happened last Wednesday but I thought I'd better immortalise it while I remember - I managed to break our washing machine! Quite literally! I loaded it up with to many towels and sheets. Chris and I heard banging while it was going and we were like "Oh well, it always does that".

But lo, when I went to get the washing out when the cycle had finished I lifted up the lid and thought "Hmmm where's that plastic bit that normally sits in the middle of the tub?" (Chris tells me that bit is called the Agitator - kind of like the terminator, but for clothes). So I pulled out the sheets and found that said sheets had had their revenge on my washing machine by wrapping themselves around it and quite deftly snapping it off at the base. I thought it was pretty impressive for an inanimate object myself.

Our flatmate Greg decided to take a look to see if he could fix it. I was dubious, but he was all "I'm a man and an engineer, I can fix anything!" But then he actually looked at it and was like... umm... no.

Luckily, it was a farmer's cardholder's day the next day! So off we trundled to my old place of work to get a 10% discount on a brand new (and much larger) washing machine. It was delivered the next day. Ah the fast paced modern consumeristic society we live in. Terrible for the environment, but just so darned convienient!

So there's my little story for today!