Never, never, never again ...

Will I ever put a feather anything in my washing machine. I can't really explain how it happened but the cat's cushion, that I thought I'd wash instead of spending a small fortune at the dry cleaners, exploded - ***t! It was like a spontaneous chicken combustion in the hen coup - Chicken Run had nothing on this - it was absolutely everywhere! And of course it blocked the machine causing it to flood, gulp once or twice and then give up the ghost.



So instead of costing me £8 at the dry cleaners, or £150 to call out an engineer it will have cost me £159 in 10 months time when the maintenance guarantee, that was cheaper to take out rather than call on an engineer or purchase a new machine, runs out!

A 7.30am visit this morning from a nice man from Hotpoint brought more feather carnage. 6 flushes of the machine later (thank god the machine is in the shed, not in the house!) and I have been trying to clear up feathers all day, even Jo our cat began to look like Big Bird!

So the moral of the story .... never, never, never again, ever put anything feather like in your washing machine!