Tuesday 6th November
I’m not entirely sure where to begin today’s debacle of
events, it’s been a pretty terrible Tuesday!
I thought I’d take the dog for a lovely long walk this
morning, until she started being sick, she’d been eating something she shouldn’t
have and it disagreed with her. In dealing with her outside and clearing up I
glanced up at the house and saw water pouring (no exaggeration) down the side
of the wall. It took me 30 seconds to register that this was not good news, so
the dog was abandoned and an off duty fireman was summoned!
Upstairs we were greeted with an inch of water on the
bathroom floor and water coming from the ceiling and through the light sockets.
Total panic followed, (Ok so that was just me), meanwhile cool son had turned
off the electricity, and was finding the stop cock. The plumber was called and he
came straight away to try and sort out the problem.
I rung up Pops who came with a de humidifier to begin the
drying out process, and assess the damage. Fortunately the burst pipe was
located (it did require some drilling to find it) and eventually fixed.
The dog did finally get her walk, on the cliff path and in the lovely sunshine
above Bouley Bay, however my car’s locking system seems to be faulty and in
trying to lock it manually the alarm went off…..twice. It took me ages to stop
it (seemed like ages anyway!) and I really don’t think the tanker driver who
had parked up to have a peaceful lunchtime nap was exactly thrilled with me!
I popped by J.F.T.U to see JD who sorted me out with some
BRILLIANT new waterproof Woof Wear boots (yes really). Already worn them
tonight (fur lined… be jealous)!
Arrived back home about 2.30 and very quickly put together a
chicken casserole for supper as had just made appointment to take Billy (the cat) to the
vet. (He’s fine, just a check-up)
Finally had my lunch at 4.30pm- decided I needed to ‘fuel up’
before my netball game this evening- and it worked- we won!
Must just say a big thank you for the fruit and banana cakes that SW and friend had baked for the family last week, very delicious and now all gone!
As we are away tomorrow the chances of my writing a blog
over the next few days is slim, so DON’T PANIC if you don’t see anything
written until Saturday!!!
Took photo of the two eldest washing/drying up –all of TWO
pans from tonight’s supper, as they were making such a ‘song and a dance’ of
it. 2. Slang An excessively elaborate effort to explain
or justify.
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorough fire,
I do wander everywhere.”
So, apart from everything that went wrong yesterday, you had a good day!xx
ReplyDeleteIs that it? I thought you said it was a terrible day?? ;-)
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