What minor disaster has befallen you today?

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Eynsham Red Jun 2023 3:51pm, 11 Jun 2023 9,731 posts	0 Eynsham Red Despite the torrential rain that we had yesterday our main water butt remained nearly empty. On investigation I found a very large slug had taken up residence in the feed pipe between the the down pipe and the butt creating a tight plug! Butt plug? I have never had any desire to use a butt plug, but I have even less desire to shove a slug up there! 😂
Pothunter Jun 2023 8:47am, 12 Jun 2023 7,923 posts	0 Pothunter Dog stole the TV remote from next to me. I dived after him and now have carpet burns on my knees. (I did rescue the remote though)
Pinks Jun 2023 10:46am, 12 Jun 2023 40,528 posts	0 Pinks A wardrobe that I was making slipped and my shin got attacked by the wood. I have a fantastic bruise and a minor(ish) scrape
PaulaMc Jun 2023 1:55pm, 12 Jun 2023 12,013 posts	0 PaulaMc Son2 is ok but the car we share is not. We really need a second car at the new house.
Diogenes Jun 2023 2:05pm, 12 Jun 2023 79,565 posts	0 Diogenes That's rubbish, Paula, but I'm glad your son is ok.
PaulaMc Jun 2023 2:36pm, 12 Jun 2023 12,016 posts	0 PaulaMc Me too, priorities and all that. Still a complete ball ache to sort and the timing is far from good with the move and our holiday coming up.
ChrisHB Jun 2023 10:03pm, 12 Jun 2023 22,481 posts	0 ChrisHB We made a small detour to buy, as we thought, cheap petrol from a supermarket. It turned out to be the most expensive non-motorway fuel we saw all day, and on returning to our route, there was a half-hour traffic jam.
Groundhog Jun 2023 11:12am, 14 Jun 2023 5,627 posts	0 Groundhog IT issues starting my work laptop and getting access into the network today meant I was late into my first meeting and didn;t have time for my usual breakfast, then got into two more back to back meetings. Just got into my 4th meeting of the morning at 11:00 and just having breakfast.
Pothunter Jun 2023 4:36pm, 14 Jun 2023 7,935 posts	0 Pothunter I’ve run out of tea bags. I’ve opened a box of decaf Yorkshire tea that we got as a freebie recently but it’s not exactly a decent substitute
Idristhedragon Jun 2023 5:03pm, 14 Jun 2023 2,330 posts	0 Idristhedragon Am on the way back from work meeting. The lunch element went on too long and so we couldn’t have pudding. I had chosen pavlova. I was looking forward to it.