The other mishap of today is that a few days ago I noticed a stinky smell on the second floor, which is the floor which houses the laundry. As I am good about doing the washing very frequently I initially put it down to the fact that our neighbours appear to have manured their front garden last weekend and there is a general stinky-smell around the area at the moment. (Quite annoying because I tried to air the house this afternoon and the stinky smell outside was marginally worse than the stinky smell inside... so no airing of the house.)
Then I noticed that the washing machine kept stopping halfway through the cycle, with 2 red lights blinking. Hey! Our washing machine is on the blink!
Well. I thought I had solved the problem by setting it to a little picture that (I think) means 'rinse', and the machine would start off again and then ... 2 red blinking lights ... and I would set it on spin (little picture of whirlpool).. and then it would rest on the 1 red light, which is the end.
Finally I connected the smell to the blinking lights. So this afternoon I dug out the washing machine instructions (yes, they are in Dutch with NO English translation...), and after typing the Dutch into babelfish on the internet, thought I would try removing the bottom panel and cleaning out the filter. So with 10.5 month old Edward cuddled up to my side, I did this. Big mistake. Great gush of truely revolting water, with bits of disgusting filth in it (we use cloth nappies on Edward... so it must have been old bits of poo!!!) Oh, it was awful. My first thought was of Edward and the germs so I raced him to the cot. And then ran back to the fountain of watery-s*** coming from the washing machine.
Anyway... it is cleaned up now and I am currently running another cycle in the machine to see if the blinking light problem is solved. Have disinfected the laundry, hall and bathroom floor.
What a day. Roll on Friday!
