Day 2575 Round the bend

1st September 2024

We were busy this morning tidying up the back garden because we have Kelli’s family around for a Labour Day party.

This marks the end of summer, a time of sadness, I hadn’t achieved much that I had hoped, it was more keeping afloat. Plants grow, and look great, my priorities were placed elsewhere, there’s alway next year to do stuff.

Then we cycled up to Kelli’s mums to help Matt mount his TV on the wall upstairs.

Luckily he had a stud finder, making the mounting relatively easy. The thing itself was 72” wide, a monstrous beast. Once the position he wanted it was agreed, it didn’t take that long to get everything fixed to the wall and the screen mounted.

I’m not sure I would want a screen that large, the static alone would make my eyebrows stand out.

Next was trying to locate the water stopcock.

No one knew where that was, an important bit of information because the next job was to change the siphon in the downstairs toilet.

We ventured downstairs into the basement, the floor space above was riddled with copper pipes and taps going in all directions; victim of years of additions and alterations. I found the pipe leading to the outside tap, it was a larger diameter than the others, that was high pressure, I walked into the other part of the basement, the place where Dave had his workshop and there was the meter and the main’s stopcock.

I then got roped in to helping/ doing the change of siphon. The original problem was the water was not flowing fast enough to clear the toilet. I was not convinced that the siphon was the problem, but changed it anyway.

Sure enough it made no difference to the flushing force.

I suggested that there might be a restriction in the U-bend, I certainly was not going to get more involved in that part.

I had  done my good deed, and was adequately rewarded with a bowl of ice cream, with that I can put up with any thing, including two annoying puppies running about nipping at my legs. 

I did have a thought about sticking a pole up the little pup’s arse and shove that round the bend, but I didn’t,  that would not add to family harmony.