Day 71: Water, Wrangling and a Return to the Pavement
A Brief Interlude of Indoor Rain I promised an update after yesterday’s unexpected experiment in indoor waterfalls and here it is: the situation was sufficiently dire to warrant an overnight hotel stay. Apparently, a house without a working toilet is officially uninhabitable, though I must admit I would have reached that conclusion slightly sooner than our insurance provider did. Every flood has a silver lining, though and in this case, it came in the form of a rather excellent cooked breakfast. The emergency plumber was summoned and after much investigation and muttered incantations, the culprit was found lurking in the wall between the wardrobe and the ensuite shower. Water, as it turns out, is alarmingly ambitious when given the opportunity to go places it shouldn’t. It spread with all the grace of an overturned bucket, even taking out my three-piece suit collection—an attack on my very professional identity! The water is back on now, but the real battle begins: the clash of ti...