guess what exciting things I'm doing today....

[scottyman]

go on... will give you three guesses.
It involves water and blokes with large biceps!

[Elmo]

arm wrestling in the rain!

[Skii]

Colonic irrigation ?

[scottyman]

LOL... but no... come on - last guess!

[Elmo]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerm........ water polo?

[Skii]

Prison shower maintenance ..

[turkster]

Unblocking drains

[Flibb]

Hunt the soap

[Basher]

swimming?

[scottyman]

LOL - nothing quite so... "interesting"
I'm around at my g/f's brother's place where yesterday a nasty alarm installer person managed to drill through the mains water supply
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it turns out that the stopcock on the street didn't work
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thames water came out to replace it
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to find a broken pipe in the garden where the plastic pipe connecting the street to the house had snapped.
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they weren't insured to do work inside the property boundary - so had to get another crew out
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in the meantime - their basement flat had about an inch and a half deep water throughout - soaking the brand new carpet
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because the plastic pipe supplying the water is so brittle- nobody can get an appropriate fitting for it.
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so I'm waiting for a THIRD plumber to come around and give it a blast.

in the meantime - they've got builders out back rebuilding a now-collapsed wall who've discovered all kinds of new problems... the reason for the damp in the front room and lounge - because the foundations end about 6 inches away from the walls... so there was bare earth under the fake floorboards.

It's an absolute unmitiaged disaster - so I'm sitting here in the "study" - which is where they keep the freezer - and freezing my knackers off ... looking at a pool of water which could be deep enough to swim in.

I would be seriously grumpy if this comedy of errors had happened to me - but as Mark (my g/f's brother) said this morning - well, what can you do. It's completely silly.
Mind you - the builders are being great about it - Thames Water blew my mind with their speed and efficiency... and the Alarm guys acutally had proper insurance! So it looks like everything will be sorted out nicely... eventually.

Harrumph.

[Moonshade]

Wow..indeed exciting and nothing near what people guessed above

[Flash]

get the buckets and start bailing out dont just sit there man

[scottyman]

lol - done that already - but waiting for more water to seep out of the underlay