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Seems Like a Freeze Out

posted Wednesday, 30 January 2008
Fridge-FreezerYou couldn’t make it up.

Here I am sitting, shivering my pieces off in the coldest winter in living memory. All around me people are trapped in frozen railway stations or worse. People have died. The whole of China is frozen.

Except the one place I want it to be.

My freezer has packed in and died. I stocked up with loads of food to save me going out in the cold every day. I made huge batches of soup and froze them. And, today, I opened the freezer to find everything thawed out. I can’t eat it all today!

And I can’t get anyone to fix it till Saturday. It’s only Wednesday. Half the repair people are stuck in the railway station trying to get home for the holidays. The remainder are busy repairing heaters! Or have frozen.
 
UPDATE:  Friday morning, they call and say they will come now, if I am at home. I am.
 
Fridge / Freezer now working. And they didn't charge! Sorted! 

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1. Jerry left...
Wednesday, 30 January 2008 1:31 pm

put it outside! or buy a new one...


2. liuzhou left...
Wednesday, 30 January 2008 1:38 pm :: http://liuzhou.blog-city.com

It's not quite cold enough outside. Cold enough to freeze me, but not cold enough to freeze food. It's about 3°C today.

It is new!


3. Jerry left...
Friday, 1 February 2008 2:07 pm

3deg c, cold? Try Ohio cold, 16F Sorry about the food man, but you can put a light chill on the ale!


4. liuzhou left...
Friday, 1 February 2008 2:12 pm :: http://liuzhou.blog-city.com

Sure. Ohio is colder. But you have heating. Try switchiing it off and opening the windows!


5. jenn left...
Saturday, 2 February 2008 3:20 am

I have nothing but empathy. I had a freezer do that to me before and it stank--lost heaps of food. If you have access to a cooler, you can stick it outside with ice in it and that should work for a couple of days. wrap a blanket or so around it to keep the cold in.

good luck!


6. liuzhou left...
Saturday, 2 February 2008 2:04 pm :: http://liuzhou.blog-city.com/

Thanks for the advice. However, sticking outside round here wouldn't work. It would disappear in minutes! The local communists believe in sharing everything! Or are just a bunch of thieves!

:-)