Must still be under warranty, right?

You still have rights under the Consumer Rights Act or Sale of Goods Act, even if your manufacturer's warranty or guarantee has expired, and retailers can't ignore this; contact the people you bought it off and explain the fault they may repair or replace for free?

Good thinking; may be worth pursuing that if your PS4 isn't working.

E: From my quick googling I believe the sale of good act trumps the EU directive which gives you the warranty, I'll have a read through the act and let you know what it says.

E2: You still have rights under the Consumer Rights Act or Sale of Goods Act, even if your manufacturer's warranty or guarantee has expired, and retailers can't ignore this; contact the people you bought it off and explain the fault they may repair or replace for free?

Lawyer note: Sale of Goods Act only applies to goods purchased before 2015. TSOGA was effectively replaced by the Consumer Rights Act 2015 for all goods purchased after 2015.

Yeah depending where you purchased it from stores keep receipts (they have to by law) for this sort of thing they may be able to dig it out?

Really stupidly I left my curtains open all day. The sun comes around the front of the building around 4pm, then by 7 you feel yourself slowly being cooked. I just had a cool bath, put on my bath robe and I am sitting here soaking wet

It's like being in an oven. Have closed the curtains again, but it's roasting in here.

Open the windows maybe.

I forgot to revisit this but I seem to have managed to fix my PS4 disc drive. After sourcing a screwdriver small enough to get into the relevant hidden screw, I did the following:

• Power down PS4
• Place a disc just inside the drive slot
• Turn the screw to sort of 'suck' the disc right into the drive.
• Power up the PS4; still the disc isn't recognised
• Power down PS4
• Turn the screw to eject the disc from the drive
• Power up the PS4
• Put the disc in the drive slot, the motor engages as normal to suck the thing in and the PS4 UI correctly reports it's existence. I then ejected it as normal and tried a few different films discs and they all worked as you'd expect.

It strikes me now that I never bothered to actually begin playback on any of the films so I suppose it could still fuck up at the point of reading the disc in anger, but certainly the initial problem seems to have been solved.

I'm sorry I haven't posted for so long, the longer I go without posting the harder it feels to post
so I decided to make this post so I don't disappear completely
I'm struggling. This could also have gone in the Black dog probably, but deciding where to put this already making me cry so you know
I was struggling for months, also having a lot of health bother, and then my father died suddenly
I had a very strained relationship with him because I had a badly abusive childhood with him as he was a violent alcoholic
but trying to be a good girl and having a child I maintained the "relationship" at arms length so he would have a chance to know his granddaughter and katie would have a chance to know her grandfather
and then he died. suddenly. and he lived in Bosnia and they bury really quickly so it was a roller coaster to get there and the funeral was argh
and I thought I would feel relieved, or maybe not feel much of anything, but I'm feeling so much and I'm all over the place and it's been a while now and it's not much better
I know it's ok but damn I'm struggling a lot, and when I feel badly I go quiet
so I'm very sorry to dump this all on you guys, and I will be fine, but if I didn't say anything I would probably never get the courage up to post again

I'm sorry I haven't posted for so long, the longer I go without posting the harder it feels to post
so I decided to make this post so I don't disappear completely
I'm struggling. This could also have gone in the Black dog probably, but deciding where to put this already making me cry so you know
I was struggling for months, also having a lot of health bother, and then my father died suddenly
I had a very strained relationship with him because I had a badly abusive childhood with him as he was a violent alcoholic
but trying to be a good girl and having a child I maintained the "relationship" at arms length so he would have a chance to know his granddaughter and katie would have a chance to know her grandfather
and then he died. suddenly. and he lived in Bosnia and they bury really quickly so it was a roller coaster to get there and the funeral was argh
and I thought I would feel relieved, or maybe not feel much of anything, but I'm feeling so much and I'm all over the place and it's been a while now and it's not much better
I know it's ok but damn I'm struggling a lot, and when I feel badly I go quiet
so I'm very sorry to dump this all on you guys, and I will be fine, but if I didn't say anything I would probably never get the courage up to post again

Hey Miki,

I'm sorry to hear that it is far from great for you right now. There's not a huge amount that I feel I could say to ease things, but I want you to know that you're not alone, and your decision regarding your child and her grandfather was incredibly kind and thoughtful.

It might seem to be rubbish now, and maybe in the near future, but soon it'll pick up. Thete's little bits of joy and hope that'll self assemble into gloriousness. Promise you.

You take care, kiddo, you're a good 'un.

M.a.

I believe Miki lives in the Netherlands, which makes it a little tricky

I believe Miki lives in the Netherlands, which makes it a little tricky

thank you so much everyone
yes, still in NL so no BBQ, though thank you for the offer of hugs!

I think it's not helping that I'm so ridiculously tired