in threes

I'm not very superstitious, but you have to wonder. Since the demise of the boiler, we have also lost our faithful friend the kettle and our machine of joy, the dishwasher. We've replaced the kettle and the boiler, but the dishwasher will have to wait until Mr McMuffin is employed.

So Mr McMuffin has lost his job, I have lost most of my original staff team (out of 10 there are three of us left) due to sickness and death and the third work related thing can just sod off, is this not bad enough?

We've also had the tsunami, I think that counts as one, two and three for everything for a long, long, time.