--- In [email protected], Baz Juniper <b...@...> wrote:
>
>
> On 19 Jan 2009, at 16:29, Neil Arlidge wrote:
>
> > Captain Beeky wrote:
> >> Wot no messages today ?
> >>
> >> Beeky
> >>
> >> ------------------------------------
> >
> > We are all busying ourselves being "frugal"?
> > With the banks in dissarry, I suppose the next thing to be wiped
> > out will be
> > the pensions of the people who did not believe in credit and were
> > prudent...in my case with the Prudential.
> > I have spent most of the day fiddling
>
> <and lots of other domestics>
>
> <Engage 4 Yorkshiremen mode>
>
> You were lucky. I wandered downstairs mid-morning to get some coffee
> only to find the back room sodden with sewage. Drain blocked below
> and bolted manhole cover not watertight. Furniture evicted pronto,
> carpet & underlay hauled into garden to rot, drain rodded with the
> help of our noble builder and we're now into fumigate and de-humidify
> mode. And to think I woke up this morning wondering whether the
> water systems on the boat had survived the freeze. Still, it
> prompted me to renew the house insurance.
>
> Baz
> [ now going back to work :-( ]
>
We had the joys of drain clearing New Years morning. It was grease etc
in the kitchen drain but the manhole is in a bedroom. Luckily we have
carpet tiles.
Sue
