The other week I took my Dyson to the repair shop as the filter collects with dust and it doesn't hoover as it should. They looked at me a bit strangely, but a couple of days later I collected it (at a cost of £50ish) and found it had needed 1 hours work and 2 new filters (I had already changed the filters..). You've done what I did, I mentioned. No, they explained, we cleaned it all out thoroughly as well. So home it came.
Has the service made a difference? - I should say so. It could suck the skin off a sausage now. Fantastic. 
In fact once the nozzle is on the floor, it is quite hard to move it about and I daren't use it near any flimsy rugs in case they disappear up the tube. 
You can buy a new hoover for £50, but my renovated one is so much better than that. I believe Dysons keep the repair shops in business (my Dyson is 8 years old) and that's fine by me - I would hate my local shops to go out of business.
My little one had a tummy bug at the weekend 
. He missed out on a weekend of 'Fetes'. Around here schools and scouts have most of the Fete business, and we had one on Saturday and one on Sunday (which we thought was going to get drowned out, but didn't). My eldest got recruited into Cubs, so he's very excited and I offloaded my spare seedling plants to the plant stall, and then took back those they couldn't sell and freecycled them to local allotments where they are trying to raise £30,000 to repair buildings on their site - so my extra seeds helped some good causes. I don't grow extra seedling plants on purpose, I just vastly underestimated the number that would grow, and I hate throwing them away.
A couple of weeks ago I couldn't dig because it was so sunny and the ground was too hard. Now its too wet.
Have a good week.
