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Much ado about nothing
My freezer (nine years old) packed up today--or so I thought. I took out a cake to eat a slice for lunch and, thinking that the cake was not as cold as I expected, went to check the freezer. It was silent and its green light was out. I checked the socket and the fuse; both were OK. The contents were worth little more than £20 being milk, cheese, margarine, bread, broccoli and cake so wasting them was no great loss.
After lunch I drove to the nearest industrial estate to look in Comet and Currys for freezers. Fortunately the heavy rain had stopped. Unfortunately the car park was full. Cars queued on the slip road to the entrance; people waited to get in and people waited to get out. I drove straight past and returned home. Roads were full; pavements were full. Sundays are just as busy as Saturdays now.
I replaced the fuse in the plug and checked the freezer for the last time. To my surprise the motor came on. Perhaps it hadn't packed up after all. Maybe it just needed defrosting. So that's what I did--an emergency defrost. The contents I put in buckets and basins, covered them with newspaper and put them in the porch. The ice, there was a lot, I melted with an electric fan heater. Some of it, in spite of my precautions, went on the floor. I have yet to defrost a freezer without getting the floor wet.
The process took three hours from start to dry. I switched on the freezer; the motor started and the red light came on. Time will tell but so far it looks as if the defrosting has revived it; or else there was nothing wrong with it in the first place, and the full car park was a blessing. D'Oh.
Thought for today
He is always right who suspects that he is always making mistakes.
Spanish proverb
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