Murderer!

Had a couple of disasters with the Roomba when first it fell downstairs and then I cut a wire whilst cleaning it out. I felt like a murderer - it's a common phenomenon amongst Roomba owners to see them as children or pets and as we have neither children nor pets the Roomba might be fulfilling an emotional gap... At least we haven't got 'clothes' for it yet! Although, when I mentioned at work that you could dress it up, the one question that everyone asked was "Can you get a French maid's outfit for it?". I do wonder how much vacuum cleaner abuse goes on behind closed doors... I do like "mooba the Cow" though...

The fall didn't seem to affect its performance but the wire was the one that made the brushes turn, so that was a bit of a problem. Anyway, it turned out the the importer is just in the next town, so I dropped it off Monday lunchtime and it was fixed by Tuesday afternoon! All under John Lewis's warranty so it didn't cost us a penny.

This weekend was spent in Exeter visiting Mr Oscar, and Keith came down to watch Hull City play Plymouth Town (he didn't invite Jon to the match so Hull City won). Mr O suggested a trip to Sidmouth for Sunday lunch - this would be on the day when gales were forecast in the southwest, just after the snows had moved into Exmoor... It was incredibly windy - even my granny wouldn't have described it as 'fresh' - it was bloody rough! The sea was amazing, I don't think I've ever seen it so rough, and I'd never experienced the sea foaming up like that - it looked like someone had let a fire extinguisher off in the street! Needless to say there was some pillock surfing and being filmed by his mate - it was probably on MySpace by teatime. Lovely lunch though and a great weekend.