Dishwasher

R and I went to see my Mum in Rhu today (we went on a new route via the A9 which I thought was ok – a bit further round that the A91 but less 20mph zones with loads of parked cars).

One of the reasons for this is that her dishwasher was broken and a new one had been ordered via the internet.  When the men had turned up to fit it – they took one look at the fact it was a fitted kitchen and gave my Mum the “more than our jobs’ worth” treatment.  So my 87 mother had been left with a broken dishwasher and a new one still in its packaging sitting in the dining room.

R and I looked at the setup of the existing one – I was all for pulling it out from the wall and looking behind it, but R managed to persuade me not to on the ground that if we ripped the pipes we would have a flood on our hands.  But I insisted (against R’s advice) on turning it on to see whether a) it would just work b) we would get a useful error code from it.  So I looked in the manual and pressed the “Program select” button – nothing happened apart from the three buttons at the end of the panel blinked red and then went off.  Was this the error code?  So R took a photo and showed it to “Claude” an AI.

After a brief pause – Claude tactfully informed us that the child lock was turned on, and told us how to turn it off.  Five minutes later the dishwasher was running fine – there was never anything wrong with it apart from my Mum had hit the wrong button and accidentally locked the machine.

So now the only problem is the brand new dishwasher which is now surplus to requirements.

I went to water the garden when I got home (if I had lived west of Stirling I would not have needed to water it because it was raining over there as ever), and saw that another waterlily has come out – a red one this time.