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[flemmings]

Must really say 'Damn!', to quote the Dowager Duchess. My superb standing Holmes fan died today, quietly and without fuss. Yesterday it turned on, today it simply didn't. I thought it had been getting a little hot lately and so kept its use to night time, but oh well. It was a second-hand pass on more years ago than I can remember, so had good innings. Shall not be replacing it with a new Holmes because with tax they cost over $200. Have ordered a five blade fan that they promise is wind tunnel strong even on lowest setting, and hope it is.

(Yes of course I have other standing fans- two of them- plus three window fans of varying strength and a couple of table fans. I just don't have a standing fan *in that room*.) (And I'm trying not to be superstitious about all these niggling things going wrong on each other's heels.) 

Comments

[anna_wing]

I have had good relationships with Hitachi fans.

[flemmings]

Hitachi is nearly as expensive as Holmes over here. Quality costs.

[incandescens]

It is very frustrating when everything runs out / gives up simultaneously, though I’m more inclined to blame it on the cussedness of things in general rather than take it as a specific ill omen.

[flemmings]

Gloom and doom Eeyore here takes all synchronous events as Portents and has done all my life. Mostly I ignore the reflex but the solitary life foes tend to reinforce the habit.