They’re in a safe place.

Around nine months ago, my OCD got the bet­ter of me and I decided to tidy up all the european power adaptors kick­ing about the house. I had used a heap of shaver adaptors, but they weren’t par­tic­u­larly good and they def­in­itely were bulky. I went out and bought a bunch of Europlug – UK plug convertors,attached them to the Europlugs, tidied all the wires away and put the freed-up shaver adaptors in a safe place.

Today I got a new Bluetooth adaptor for my motor­bike hel­met. And yes, it’s got a Europlug. Such is the haz­ard of buy­ing from eBay, I guess. How­ever, I know I have a bunch of spare shaver adaptors lying about some­where, so this is not a problem.

Rather, it would not be a prob­lem if only I could find the damn things. I’m pretty neat around the house, and there are only three places where spare elec­trical stuff lurks. The adaptors are not in any of them. Nor will I have thrown them out – I simply don’t do that sort of thing.

So, in order to get my Bluetooth adaptor charged up, I had to go out and buy another adaptor. It’s all charged, tested, and mar­ried to my phone and GPS. I’m all connected.

But that £1.69 for the adaptor? It’s irrit­at­ing!