ei141rc smoke alarm Fun

Do you know why smoke alarms start to beep in the middle of the night? No it's not because they  are designed to wake you when you are enjoying your ZZZZ's it is as simple as you needed to replace the battery earlier. They choose the night time because that is when the house is at it's coolest and the battery was no longer strong enough and because you didn't replace it finally it gasped its last and went the way of all batteries, to battery heaven!! Make sure you dispose of the depleted battery safely!!!!. So now you know the smoke alarm hasn't been on a mission to awake you unnecessarily and it hasn't got an evil side to it's normal placid temperament look on the bright side IF THERE HAD BEEN A REAL FIRE YOU WOULD BE AWAKE. I doubt that you  will have forward planned for this situation?? No, I never either! so safe in the knowledge  there is no fire just the alarm telling you that you have been a numpty and not replaced the battery, go back to bed and try and sleep. I managed but my wife didn't.😪😪 which means I dont sleep. "are you asleep" has always seemed a counter intuitive question because if you get an answer to it the answer can only ever be NO!!!. I am in another room due to my illness (Multiple Sclerosis) I have an airflow mattress and a sleep apnea machine making competing noises all night so an intermittent beep from a smoke alarm ain't got a chance, I would only wake if it was a real WAKE UP CALL that thing is VERY LOUD when called to inform you the toast has burned.
Daylight eventually arrives and we head off on a shopping trip to get stuff including a replacement battery, STUFF included a visit to the hairdressers for me. My hairdressers work on an appointment system but did we book? Half an hour to waste before I got to have my snip. A grade two all over and we were off to get STUFF. Eventually we arrived home and it was then that we discovered what you have already guessed without the said battery. So a  trip to the local newsagent to buy the battery we decided we wouldn't buy from there because the turnover wont be as fast as a supermarket. Battery finally installed  and guess what the beep continued. TO BE CONTINUED MY FINGER CANNOT TYPE ANYMORE
 So our fears were confirmed it was the battery okay and the Alarm faulty? Do many questions and we still had an alarm that continues to beep. Well no more could be done today or as I am writing this tomorrow I if we're of a pedantic nature no more could have been done yesterday. I am now writing in the present because today is today and yesterday has been and gone. (Song title anyone) Because of my bowel problems we wasn't able to do anything  until after 1:00 today. Heather decided after several battery changes and recurring the Alarm that a new alarm was needed. The base separated from the base and armed with the offending article she heard off to City Electrical Factors in Broadstairs to get a new one. Twenty some odd squids later she reruns and fits the new one. It just slides in and we expected that to be it. It beeped a few times and was then almost silent.
This all happened today. And today was the day of England's match against Croatia so I am now home after the match (England lost) and am in bed listening to a beep every few minutes. So good 🌙 I will continue this tale tomorrow which will be relayed to you in the present sense  of you fill my dift.