Oil Painting of Carew Castle

The painting of Carew Castle above is sold.

I am quite safety conscious but not so much as Alex. Anyway we do have smoke detectors about the place and carbon monoxide alarm. In all we have about 5 battery alarms. A while back I heard the ping of a smoke detector indicating its end of battery life.

 It isn’t always easy to identify which one is going off particularly as they go off intermittently and are at ceiling height. I was up and downstairs trying to identify which one it was and eventually tracked it down to one in our hall.

I found a new battery and removed the detector only to find it had a non-replaceable battery. I put it in the garage and then thought, “I will still be able to hear that annoying ping,” so I got the pincers, snipped the wires and threw it in the bin.

As I walked back into the hall I heard that “Ping” again. Yes, I had binned the wrong one!