Electrical fault? Possibly caused by cold?
They can't overheat and turn themselves off, can they? Although I guess that wouldn't explain the dials being turned to zero - but I know a lot of equipment can get too hot and then just go 'nah' and reset (which is very annoying when you come to it expecting it to be working away and it's absolutely off).
I did consider that but it has been as cold (or colder) plenty of other times and no repeat.
Yes, it's been cold before, but you may have a tiny leak somewhere that's let some damp in and that, in combination, is causing the problem. Source: have driven some cars with some extremely peculiar problems, at times.
My Brain read this as WI ( Women's Institute) which conjured up a bizarre image of respectable ladies illuminating your lounge.
Check a nearby radiator. Don't want to scare you, but I heard a radiator go 'ping' late at night some years back and it started spraying water everywhere.
Thanks for the heads-up - no sign of water anywhere this morning.
Also, it may be a radiator 'ticking' as they sometimes do when they warm up/cool down, or if the pipes have been threaded through holes/notches in joists that are too tight.
Sounds very like the 'ping' that I sometimes hear when the weather/humidity, temperature changes become apparent in the brickwork of my house! It's the tying-wires between the inner and outer bricks when they ping like piano wires getting taught or slackening off.
Ha! I often find myself looking to find something nowadays, and not seeing it first/or second time around. Then I come across it - or it comes to mind where 'it' was all the time. I think it might be something to do with too much thought thinking about it rather than concentrating and taking in what the item is that your actively looking for realising that in fact it is sitting right under your very nose all the time.
I do.this. I was out with a friend and the usual A road had closed so we had to divert down some creepy country lanes. It was pitch black, no road signs or anything or junctions. But at a bend in the road I suddendly knew where i was, my friend was just like "How? You can't see anything!". My friend had lived in the area all her life compared, whereas I'd lived there only a few years and not reallya fan of creepy country lanes at night!
When I was much younger, a friend and I were exploring (trespassing) on the site of an old station-master's house that was up for sale. We were creeping around in the garden, getting closer to the house, when we heard what sounded like teacups clinking into saucers. We instantly thought that there must be people there, and scarpered. Thinking about it later, it was an empty house and, since it was for sale, it was unlikely that anyone was taking tea either in the house or out on the lawn immediately in front.
"Rats???"
"blessmycottonsocks said:
I get those things happening. It's difficult to work out the direction the noises come from because one of my hearing aids is on the way out so I only really hear with my right ear at the moment.
Did a bit of a dig ("pun intended") into 'RHINO Silica' and what it stands for. This is what I found. . .
Whilst I won't say the key was the oddest thing I've found in a field, the bag containing my kit doesn't leave the car when I go on a Dig. So transfer is limited to the the back seat, the top bunk in the spare room and my living room carpet. If the key had been blank ie no logo, I would have probably worked out its origin (eventually) - but Rhino Silica does seem a little.. random, like some-one trying a bit too hard to baffle me. Thanks for your research efforts btw.
