Ugh indeed!
Luckily she had taken her shoes off in the early evening yesterday and gone into the bathroom and trodden on a WET floor mat.. 'ugh.. where the hell has that come from? There has been no mad parrot cavorting in the basin, how come the mat's soaking wet?'
She took the cleaning things out of the bottom of the cupboard under the sink and all was revealed.
Oh dear.. dripdripdrip.. the MAINS water pipe into our house is leaking a fast leak! Grim news folks, she put her boots on and rushed outside and went underneath the pavement to turn the water supply off, only to find that those ......... (put your rudest applicable word there) numpties have done something to the outside lever of our water supply which makes it impossible to turn it off or to even lower the pressure.
Praise the Lord, one of the crew at the freeholder's office was still there and answered their telephone at past six of the evening clock and she was able to alert him to the emergency. Numpty Richard is the plumber, they said they would call him to get him to come asap. He has now sent her a message saying he will come today between 11.00 and 13.00 hours.
In the meantime, a baking tray just fits underneath the drip but it fills up within an hour, the tray overflowed during the night but she had put towels and spare bathmats down to try and soak up the water and is now emptying the tray every thirty minutes.
And all of this flipping mess is because the numpties did not install a stopcock on the mains pipe inside the flat. Grrr.
Do you know where your stopcock is? Have you turned it recently? Did it turn the water supply off? In low temperatures pipes can freeze, are yours all lagged or protected from extreme weather conditions? She has no idea how long this pipe has been dripping but it must have been for some time.
This, therefore, has put a stop to her plans of going to Baldwins or anywhere else such as a Farmer's Market or Borough Market to get goaty milk. But as it is ChillyBilly out there, she's quite happy to have an 'excuse' not to go out.
We heard from Mister Bob in NY that their temperatures are heading for zero degrees Fahrenheit, now that, folks, is seriously cold and will freeze many a pipe if they aren't protected.
It will certainly freeze the ground rock hard, so if you have even the smallest space outside, please remember to put out some bird food and a dish of water with a tiny amount of salt and oil in it to try to prevent if from freezing. I thank all of those of you who do DO this on behalf of my Avian friends around the world.
Off we go to empty the tray again.. a pox on water leaks and inefficient plumbers.
GeeGee Parrot.
February 13th, 2016.
Luckily she had taken her shoes off in the early evening yesterday and gone into the bathroom and trodden on a WET floor mat.. 'ugh.. where the hell has that come from? There has been no mad parrot cavorting in the basin, how come the mat's soaking wet?'
She took the cleaning things out of the bottom of the cupboard under the sink and all was revealed.
Oh dear.. dripdripdrip.. the MAINS water pipe into our house is leaking a fast leak! Grim news folks, she put her boots on and rushed outside and went underneath the pavement to turn the water supply off, only to find that those ......... (put your rudest applicable word there) numpties have done something to the outside lever of our water supply which makes it impossible to turn it off or to even lower the pressure.
Praise the Lord, one of the crew at the freeholder's office was still there and answered their telephone at past six of the evening clock and she was able to alert him to the emergency. Numpty Richard is the plumber, they said they would call him to get him to come asap. He has now sent her a message saying he will come today between 11.00 and 13.00 hours.
In the meantime, a baking tray just fits underneath the drip but it fills up within an hour, the tray overflowed during the night but she had put towels and spare bathmats down to try and soak up the water and is now emptying the tray every thirty minutes.
And all of this flipping mess is because the numpties did not install a stopcock on the mains pipe inside the flat. Grrr.
Do you know where your stopcock is? Have you turned it recently? Did it turn the water supply off? In low temperatures pipes can freeze, are yours all lagged or protected from extreme weather conditions? She has no idea how long this pipe has been dripping but it must have been for some time.
This, therefore, has put a stop to her plans of going to Baldwins or anywhere else such as a Farmer's Market or Borough Market to get goaty milk. But as it is ChillyBilly out there, she's quite happy to have an 'excuse' not to go out.
We heard from Mister Bob in NY that their temperatures are heading for zero degrees Fahrenheit, now that, folks, is seriously cold and will freeze many a pipe if they aren't protected.
It will certainly freeze the ground rock hard, so if you have even the smallest space outside, please remember to put out some bird food and a dish of water with a tiny amount of salt and oil in it to try to prevent if from freezing. I thank all of those of you who do DO this on behalf of my Avian friends around the world.
Off we go to empty the tray again.. a pox on water leaks and inefficient plumbers.
GeeGee Parrot.
February 13th, 2016.
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