How not to: change an iPhone case

My poor iPhone has taken a battering over its 18 months of life and this week finally got to the stage where the power button would no longer function. All it needed was new case so I popped on to Amazon and got one quite cheap. When it arrived today I checked out this video on how to disassemble your iPhone:




It looked pretty straightforward so I got myself a nice flat work area and set to with the tools that came with the new case. Taking everything apart was fairly simple although a few broken bits of the old cracked case came out to scare me.


So now I had a pile of bits of iPhone and lots and lots of screws. It was at this point that I jogged the surface with the screws on and mixed them all up... So now to put it all back together again - I tried to rewind bits of the video to do it backwards but it didn't seem to work very well for me...


Off to Twitter I went and the lovely Shaun (@actionjaxon666) gave me lots of advice and support and helped me source out a better reconstruction video:



Eventually I managed to get everything but the vibration module back in but one screw flew off and vanished and I must have used some wrong screw somewhere as the ones I had left didn't hold the case together properly! There was a nasty few minutes when it wouldn't turn back on and then I realised the battery was flat...


So I know have a working phone but bodged together. Tomorrow I'm going to hand it over to Shaun so that he can rectify what I have done wrong (hopefully)..


Next time I'm going to leave this kind of thing to the experts ;-) At least I have another addition to my occasional series on How Not To...

How not to do Internet Supermarket Shopping

Regular readers of my blog will know that my kids and I are very good at creating chaos out of the most simple tasks e.g. cooking or being a domestic goddess. Today was no exception as I had finally given in to the lure of getting my shopping delivered from the supermarket.

It all started so well when at the weekend I logged onto mysupermarket.com and started to fill up my virtual shopping trolley. I reserved my delivery slot with Asda and browsed the aisles for the products I needed. The icon telling me how to get a cheaper version of what I had chosen was very useful at saving me money. I looked at the calorie saving swaps too but as most of what I was getting was for the children I didn't swap anything. What I didn't realise was that as I didn't checkout I lost my delivery slot - newbie error!

Having completed the latest meal plan with the kids on Tuesday I went back to the site to complete my shopping list. I managed to get the same delivery slot that I had lost before but then realised that I wouldn't actually be home at that time.. so I found a slightly later £3 delivery slot that was available. This time I successfully completed my shop and checked out. So now all I had to do was sit back and relax until tonight when it was delivered.

How Not To: Be A Domestic Goddess

This is a follow up to my successful post about How Not To Cook Like My Daddy Cooks. Today I am once again demonstrating my ability to not do well in the kitchen (though sometimes I do get it right!)


So today I will show you how cause chaos making a birthday cake....it starts well then goes down hill....


Step one bake cake


The easy part is to take a Morrisons Eat Smart cake mix and follow the instructions on the back.. After 15-20 minutes of cooking time you get some lovely looking cakes: