Battery Power
Yesterday was a fidgety day. I often get them nowadays. Unable to settle to a single task, I flit like a butterfly from one thing to another. I cleared a cupboard, sorted some washing, ironed some knitwear and listed the batteries I needed to purchase…. several are not holding their charge as long as they should. More than 20 batteries are needed at first count.
You know how it goes – keyboard, mouse, camera, condiment set, clock and the one place I almost forgot. My safe! Of late I noticed that when I keyed in my pin no. for the safe, that the door would not open. It took at least five tries yesterday. So I found the instructions and as I read through it I noticed something about batteries 
It works on batteries and not fresh air. I removed the old ones and they were not rechargeable. While checking the details I noticed in small print; for expiry date see base. I turned it over and right enough it had a date – December 2004. What year is this? I hope I don’t need my crown jewels before Monday.
Oh dear, I forgot another one…..
Relax!
I tested the most important battery – the one in my smoke alarm and it works. 
Here in Norn Iron we have or did have a TV Campaign to remind everyone to test their smoke alarms. ‘Thumbs up its Monday’ was the slogan chanted by a group of Fireman in full regalia. So this week I am a day early.
In the cupboard I cleared I came across an old folder with a spring spine, it had stickers on the cover both inside and out. There are six in total and I will share them with you over the next few weeks.
This is the first:
Magpie11 said,
January 4, 2009 at 11:58 am
SnoopY! My third favourite cartoon dog…the first is Boot! the second is BH,Calcutta (Failed) both from the Perishers!
Darlene said,
January 4, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Nostaligia; Snoopy flies again. I love him and saw a T shirt with Snoopy on it. It was being displayed by a young Yugoslavian in a train compartment on the way to Italy. I told him it was Snoopy and he looked at me like I was insane. Communication was zilch.
kenju said,
January 4, 2009 at 12:50 pm
I love Snoopy, and Peanuts in general. I recently read the bio of Charles Schulz, and it made understanding his cartoons so much easier. You can see how he wove the fabric of his life into them.
Buy lithium batteries, Grannymar, they last much longer than regular ones.
d@\/e said,
January 4, 2009 at 2:47 pm
If you try to make one day a week a fidgety day and like all good bloggers blog about it regularly, like on a Friday. Then you can have a Fidgety Friday. Boom Boom!
Grannymar said,
January 4, 2009 at 3:44 pm
Wow!
I played with the idea of using these cartoons not being sure it you all would like them. So watch out over the weeks ahead for some more
D@\/e, - Fidgety Friday -
Magpie11 said,
January 4, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Wherever possible we use rechargeable batteries! We have a plug top charger and several sets of four AA batteries…bought from Focus (which gives me 10% off as I’m over 60 and from T2T gives me 15%)
Grannymar said,
January 4, 2009 at 6:04 pm
Thanks Magpie for the reminder. I genuinely forget I am a 10%er!
Wednesday shopping here I come.
Nancy said,
January 4, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Grannymar,
One year our local Fire department asked for suggestions about getting people to change the batteries in their smoke alarms. My suggestion was printed and here it is.
At the beginning of October each year, remove the batteries from your smoke alarms, but don’t throw them away. They may still have a lot of life in them.
Put the smoke alarm batteries in the remotes for your TV sets . If the batteries fail in the TV clicker, nobody will die, but if the batteries in your smoke alarms quit, it could be fatal…
I won a two free tickets to our local movie theatre for my suggestion.
Went to see “THE TOWERING INFERNO”
Grannymar said,
January 4, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Nancy,
You are so funny. “THE TOWERING INFERNO”
steph said,
January 4, 2009 at 11:14 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlf—13Q0g
Merry Christmas, my friend!
Roy (irish taxi) said,
January 5, 2009 at 2:30 am
I’ve seen the smoke alarm ad, guilted into checking the batteries, all working fine TG
Grannymar said,
January 5, 2009 at 9:55 am
@Steph - Nice little Video!
@Roy - If only one person checked then mentioning batteries was worthwhile!