Jonola14

SOME LIGHT READING

Many of you know that I am studying at the moment. Since September I have been working towards the CIM Professional Diploma in Marketing which involves attending college two nights a week and having my head in the books for a considerable proportion of the weekend.

Fortunately, the first round of exams back in December went well and I passed them both. In two and a half weeks time, though, I have the final two exams and I am currently studying hard to make sure I am well prepared for the exam papers.

Now, I have to work in the kitchen - my bedroom is only small and the kitchen is the only room with a table in it, which has been covered with my folders and marketing books since the course began.

The night before last, half an hour after getting in from work, I was attending to my boiling spuds at the cooker when BAM! The kitchen lights zapped off. “Here we go again” I said to myself, remembering the power cut debacle of a previous week but then I heard the blaring of the television in the other room, so it couldn’t be a power cut. I concluded that a lightbulb in the kitchen must have gone, causing the trip switch to, ummm, trip and sending the kitchen into darkness.

So, after dinner, I went about trying to locate which one of the six kitchen spotlights had gone bang. I tested the lights, expecting them simply not to work but BAM! once more, and a flash of the bulbs. “Hmmmm, there’s something amiss” I mused.

After removing all the bulbs bar one and once again testing the lights, one of the wires hanging from the empty spotlight shell flashed brilliantly and once again the kitchen was left in darkness.

Stumped, I knew that an electrician was needed so I made some calls but not one of them has got back to me. This is typical. No problem with the lights all year and then, two weeks before my exams when I am using the kitchen more than ever as my revision base, the poxy lights go bang, meaning I can’t do decent studying at home and requiring the intervention and expertise of an electrician, who won’t return calls.

Absolute arse.