So my garden parasol got caught by the high winds and broke one of its spokes.

I got some 15mm copper pipe and bashed it into an oval shape at the ends and where the link joins on, drilled a few holes in the right places...Et voila

MacGyver would be proud...except no duct tape used.

Total cost to fix about £8. I would have riveted the support on but the cost of a rivet gun (£20) and a pack of spaced rivets (£25) didn't justify the cost. Going to replace my bent wood screw with a bolt when I can find one in my parts bin that fits

Managed to keep the same phone for 6 years without damaging it and then dropped it off a table onto concrete a day after ordering a new one. Slightly sad as wanted to save the old phone as a backup but that's life.

Cant believe some of my friends especially younger ones have got through about a dozen phones in that time period

I was supposed to get my installation on July 23rd but the pre-installation guys hadn't done their work.

A few days later the pre-installation guys turned up to realise that they needed some tree branches removed.

The tree fellers arrived on Friday...and didn't clear enough undergrowth. The pre-installation guys realised they couldn't park their cherry picker on my lawn in case it might sink into the ground...

With me so far?

Monday came and the pre-installers came round with some boards for the soft ground and a chainsaw. Just before they arrived one of the trees in my driveway decided to shed one of its larger branches across the drive. So they cleared that and access to the telegraph poles, installing the cable to the outside of the house.

Afternoon passed and just when I wasn't expecting the internal installer to show up, he did and I'm happily typing this on a 900Mbps connection which I'm pretty damn pleased about.

Many many years ago, once apon a time i had a blood trasfusion.
33 years later as a grown man of 14 stone, with:
No cancer, No heart condition, No organ transplant, No hepatitis, No HIV, No non-prescribed drug use.
No its the received blood after 1980.
Thays why the NHS still holds me in debt.
A debt there refuse payment for on principle.

Success they stop transmitting contaminated blood.

PS i would like to give blood back, NHS get's the organs when i pop it.

This a success to a British problem so maybe counts.

I’ve been moaning for years about not being able to get a heated cinnamon swirl from Starbucks. That was the only thing I particularly liked in there, but anyway, since the cost of living crisis, I’d stopped going there.

This weekend, I nipped over to Slovakia on a cheapo Ryanair flight to watch a metal band as a treat to myself and happened upon a Starbucks, went in and ordered my usual and did a double-take when the guy behind the counter asked if I wanted it heated. “er, what?! Is that allowed? Yes YES I want it heated!” I just devoured the warm cinnamonny goodness. Result.

Strange, as it actually arrived weeks ago in record time.

The seller sent an apology and an offer of a free replacement. I was able to send a photo of my item in use and thank them for their excellent service.

Yeah, I could have claimed another expensive corkscrew but hey, this is r/britishproblemsuccess!

I know where my allegiance stands on this one. Carry on, buddy... but if you get anywhere near me I've got a good pal called Henry that doesn't give a shit what he eats.

I hope our contract is clear.

The Tesco Value kettle from my student days that was in the garage turned on fine though.

Especially those on motorway junctions.

Every time you try to follow lane discipline someones cutting someone up, or if you're in the second lane, the first lane forces you wide.

M4 J15 roundabout a perfect example. 2 lanes to get on M4E when going right, suddenly become 1. Then 2 again, but to reach the 2 you need at the turn off becomes a potential game of destruction derby.

M4 J13 isn't much better heading to the A34/Newbury.

WHY

!Even managed to give a pee sample on demand too.!<

...and it's my car 😭

All of them have been in last 4 months, two before passing test, one yesterday

I'm wondering if these people ever got past the phase in their childhood where they just said NO to everything they were told.

No Roses, no Terry's Chocolate orange, no mystery designer truffles, No Lindor, only a handful of Ferrero Rocher left and so my wife comes back from the shops with a tin of miniature Reese's Peanut Butter Cups because "they were on sale"

Only caught the glass unfortunately, not the contents.

To answer the obvious questions:

1. No, I wasn't even a little bit drunk

2. Laphroig

Means I don't have to spend time around a bunch of loud, snotty toddlers and their drunk-at-midday parents!

...and working out how much you have to pay and paying it 1 hour and 30 minutes before the deadline

Phew!