There I fixed it.

Ever heard of the website There I fixed it? It's a site for posting unorthodox ingenious ways of fixing things, sort of fixing that is, some are brilliant some are downright life threatening.
I channeled a little of the ingenuity tonight. My husband starts his new job tomorrow so at 11pm he comes in wearing his new work trousers wanting me to put them up. My eyes and I were tired, the trousers are black and the light in my sewing machine not working so I came up with this.



It worked. I have to get the machine serviced, there's a couple of niggly probs, the light and the lcd screen is fading. The mechanic is sure he can repair it. I've had the machine for over 10 years and it has done a lot of work in that time.

I heard on the Grapevine that Janome was in receivership, a little research on the matter shows this is not true. A Janome dealer under the name of Janome Sewing Centre has gone into receivership, involving a total of 2 or 3 stores. Apart from carrying the Janome name and acting as a Janome dealer, it has no impact on Janome Australia. It is sad though, especially as I a link to one of the employees at one of the affected stores, we once worked for the same company at different locations. We have the same first name and worked at locations that people used to get mixed up. A few times I had customers abuse me for promising to put an item away for them, calling me a liar when I didn't know anything about it. I would just ring the other store saying "Hi Cheryl, this is Cheryl" and then ask if she had an item put away for the particular customer, the answer was always yes. I then had the pleasure of informing the customer that they had rung a different store.

My husband bought himself a new car today, a second hand Hyundai Tarjet. He did start of wanting a twin cab utility, then thought about a van or a station wagon, finally settling a cross between van and station wagon that seats 7. I can walk bent over from the drivers seat to the back seats without having to climb over anything, something I could have used in the past "don't make me come back there", I never did because it meant getting out of the car to do it. The handbrake is strange, push a foot pedal to put it on and pull a small lever in the dash to put it on.