The Leak

Moses Gate Country Park

My Hydrangea Bush has done well too this year

Apple trees last month

The Leak
have a had a rather a frustrating week catching up with various jobs that had been put on hold. One being a broken overflow pipe from my toilet cistern that sends the water back into the cavity wall which seeps through to soak my carpet. It happened two years ago when workmen replacing my damaged soil pipe that was falling away from the wall. They snapped the overflow pipe off level with the wall. All has been well until last year I had a leak in the toilet. My plumbing insurance covered the leak from a faulty ball cock that had caused the water in the cistern to overflow. But they refused to repair the pipe as it was not inside the house.- Since then I have not been able to get anyone to attend to it as its such a small insignificant job….so they say - Well the overflow has been running again this month and again flooded the toilet floor. So for a couple of weeks, until I could find time for a plumber I have been closing the stopcock after filling the toilet cistern with water. But due to some very obvious senior moment often forgot to close it and was forever finding the carpet wet again from the backflow of water through the wall. I booked a plumber on the 24th (you can expect them between 8am and 10pm.) The plumber came at 11am fixed the problem but then had to return the following day at 7pm, as after replacing a damaged washer on the ball cock valve he inadvertently disturbed a washer on the water intake valve and that started to leak wetting the carpet once more. Thankfully I now have a new overflow pipe to the outside. Kindly repaired by the son of a good friends who came out Bank Holiday Monday. He did a perfect job of replacing the pipe that was concreted into the wall !! in no time, leaving very little mess. Thank you Simon.
The relief !!
Had a chat with my daughter and my two grandchildren Saturday, they are off to Broome for a couple of weeks sunshine. It seems the Australian Winter has been exceptionally cold. I am sure it will hot up for my visit this winter, I usually can`t bear the heat but its going to feel so good to be in the sunshine . I am not going to mention the weather. Cold - Wet - Windy - Sunny & Hot all within a day its Weird. As a result my apples are big and rosy on the trees this year, as I have left them up longer.. So I have to get my head around picking ,blanching and freezing them soon. Any volunteers LOL.