Friday, 10 April 2009

Ask Uncle Roy 3

It's been a mixed month for Roy, first getting a win against Manchester United, only to lose to Liverpool the following week. Fortunately for us his advice as an agony uncle is far more consistent than his team's results. We sat him down to run his eye over an e-mail we had in from Lee from Leeds.

"Hi Roy. I have recently installed 18 spotlights in my kitchen to improve the lighting in the room. Unfortunately this seems to have coincided with a loss of power to all of the power sockets in the adjacent dining room. I had re-wired the room as I thought was correct, but now I am at a loss. I have tried to re-wire the power sockets into the circuit but to no avail. I know you are a dab-hand on the old electrics Roy - please help!"

"Hello Lee. Thanks for pointing that out. Many people don't know how good I am round the house. I learned how to wire electrics in 1971. I did a day course at the local college and learned everything I needed to know. Back in those days we had to do all our own wiring round the house. Mind you we didn't have all these appliances like the kids have nowadays. I tell you from their gamestations to their sex-boxes they will all end up with eyes worse than Paddy Kenny. And that's no mean feat. In my day we'd have to make do with a ball and some chalk."

No comments:

Post a Comment

Please note that comments are moderated for language reasons. We wish to make this site as user friendly as possible. Thanks.