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It looks like rain....
So, tonight we are doing rain. Not a polite, British shower, or even the gentle, persistent, steady sort. No, this is torrential. It is coming straight down in sheets, in curtains. The gutters are overflowing and I can't tell if they are blocked or if there is just too much volume. The downpour roars on the conservatory roof, so that I can barely hear CD that's playing at the moment. I go out to look in the conservatory and discover that (Oh, joy!) the roof is leaking in several places.
We have builders in at the moment. No, obviously, not at this immediate moment (9.15 pm on a Friday night). But in general. And one of the things I have agreed with them is that they will replace the tape that runs round the soil pipe where it goes through the conservatory roof (and other places) and seals it off from the elements. Now, what I am not quite sure about is whether they have:
a) Not yet replaced the old fraying tape and water is getting in regardless;
b) replaced it with charming new non-functional tape;
c) taken off the old tape but not got round to putting in new tape;
d) any one of the above but the rain is Just Too Hard.
Whatever. Fortunately they have left large numbers of buckets lying around in the conservatory. I've just been out there putting buckets under the worst of the drips. In the dark. Because the light switch is perilously near one of the drips.
Roll on tomorrow morning, when, if it's not raining too hard, I get to go rowing.
We have builders in at the moment. No, obviously, not at this immediate moment (9.15 pm on a Friday night). But in general. And one of the things I have agreed with them is that they will replace the tape that runs round the soil pipe where it goes through the conservatory roof (and other places) and seals it off from the elements. Now, what I am not quite sure about is whether they have:
a) Not yet replaced the old fraying tape and water is getting in regardless;
b) replaced it with charming new non-functional tape;
c) taken off the old tape but not got round to putting in new tape;
d) any one of the above but the rain is Just Too Hard.
Whatever. Fortunately they have left large numbers of buckets lying around in the conservatory. I've just been out there putting buckets under the worst of the drips. In the dark. Because the light switch is perilously near one of the drips.
Roll on tomorrow morning, when, if it's not raining too hard, I get to go rowing.
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We've just got power back after a 40-minute cut. There's a reason we have a lot of candle-holders around the place, with candles and matches.
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We are just about to have the builders in -- two sets, at the same time, one to work on the outside (repointing, guttering, porches, construction of a covered passage down the side of the house at the back), and the other to work on the inside (increasing the depth of loft insulation, dry-lining the interior of the front walls to improve their thermal efficiency, repainting the kitchen). The former set of builders won't be very disruptive, but the latter....
Aaaaaaagh! The mere thought of the chaos to be introduced into the tidy Joseph life is more than enough!
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