I've had to think about this one. Night before last I was sitting watching TV with the dogs when a loud whirring noise started up in the next room. It turned out to be a small electric sewing machine I use for small repairs. It has been sitting on the shelf untouched for months. I turned it off but what turned it on, in it's box? To add to the mystery it wasn't plugged in.
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The only rational explanation I can think of is....................
Static has built up from dogs, dog brushing, hair brushing, hoovering etc to a point where it needed to discharge somewhere so it collected itself together, whirled around the room a bit, shot through the box and caused you to nearly have a wee wee embarrassment!
Other than that I agree with Burnie.............who you gonna call?I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison
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The reason I had to think about it is because strange things happen in this house from time to time. It's an old house so I just put it down to the house expanding and contracting with the weather. Or other reasonable explanations."I prefer rogues to imbeciles as they sometimes take a rest" (Alexander Dumas)
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live" (also Alexandre Dumas)
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Yes. Mains and battery but was in it's box, inside polystyrene ends and no way of pressing the on button without taking it out.
Miss M. Other strange happenings... footsteps on the ceiling above the lounge which I put down to changes in temperature. Things I've been looking for reappearing in the place I know I left them in the first place. A pair of earrings I hadn't seen for 2 years sitting in the middle of the conservatory floor, they're silver and they weren't remotely tarnished for having been missing for all that time. My background is scientific so I always look for the sensible answer."I prefer rogues to imbeciles as they sometimes take a rest" (Alexander Dumas)
"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live" (also Alexandre Dumas)
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I once lived in a house where I would turn the tv off at night (I can remember back when we didn't use stand-by ) and at some point it would turn itself back on again.
Hubby was night work and said I must have left it on. So on Saturday he turned it off and also off at the plug - yup, you guessed - it still turned itself back on again.
Needless to say we moved later that year
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Noises in old houses are easily explained if you have heating installed the changes in temperature and pipe expansion/contraction are usually to blame particularly prevalent at this time of year when its been off all summer.
As to sewing machines turning on/off I have no idea, being a macho snorter I am struggling to think what one isPotty by name Potty by nature.
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