Instead of googling the problem and then havin to get on my hands and knees and fix the bastard thing 
Was not what i had planned for a relaxing Sunday i can tell you - The pump is blocked - for this read, there is 10 years of dog hairs clogging it up and im probalby going to gag
There would have been a time when something relatively simple would have resulted in my throwin the offending appliance out of the back door, popped off to Currys to buy a new one. But we don't do that anymore, we can't afford it. This week, there would probably at a push be money for a new washing machine, but no no no, I have made a rod for my own back saying that we must make do and cunting mend 
This year i have:
-soldered the lead on the lap top, it sparked at me FFS!
-dislodged crap from the dishwasher pump after having emptied skanky water manually
-replaced front door seal of dishwasher which was actually much more difficult than it sounds and involved dismantling the whol bastard machine
-fixed stupid expensive american style fridge freezer by hoovering out condenser and defrosting block of ice formed around the defrost element - oh yes, i know what all these things are, so much is the time i have spent on internet forums telling me where things are and what they do
-diagnosed and helped DP to fix an electrical problem in his van (i drew the line at scrabbling around under a delapidated ford escort van!)
I even posted on someone elses thread last week telling them to grow a pair and mend their own dishwasher when it didn't drain, felt superior to posters who said they would rather eat their own eyeballs than put their precious hands in skanky dishwasher water. Its bloody karma thats what it is!
DP comes to bed last night and said, "oh, the washing machine has stopped and the display says the pump is blocked, do you reckong you can sort it out"
I'm tempted to feign illness and go back to bed until he realises that his work sfuff is in there and will stink to high heaven if he doesnt sort it out soon. But not only is his work stuff in there, DDs school uniform (all of it!) is in there too.