Sunday, February 16

Sneaky Water

Image: Guy Bourdin

Water started dripping through the ceiling into the thin slice of a room on the ground floor last week, above the slice room is a bathroom - maybe this was the source of the leak.

I called plumbers but none answered, today I unscrewed floorboards and sawed through bits of supporting woodwork  - it was all dry.

I enlisted help from an equally unqualified person, we agreed to clear the slice room then run water through the bathtub to see if we could re-enact the leakage. We drilled a hole in the slice room ceiling to ease the passage of any water wanting to come downstairs, three holes were made in our damp and stained ceiling.

No leakage happened -  maybe it was the rain surfeit creeping into wallspaces and running around the interfloor areas only coming out when the house was fully saturated.


This afternoon I am unravelling one of my charity shop jumpers, nearly all unravelled I  arrived at a pocket - where I  found a condom.

It's ok it's in an unopened packet - but really out of date, so no use

6 comments:

  1. Hahaha! Those dear little old ladies who help at charity shops clearly don't inspect the donations...

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    1. they never miss those notes in the pockets

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  2. Fortune cookie:

    BETTER LEAKY CEILING THAN LEAKY CONDOM

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    1. Better leaky ceiling than used condom in pocket

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  3. I have a leak. I can't believe that the temporary repair withstood last week... but today... yuk.
    Sx

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    1. We are all leaking Scarlet - by next week we will have reached the sea

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