The Kilners

We had to buy a new washing machine because the other one broke, which was quite annoying. Anyway, it’s currently on the 1st cycle to get rid of any water that the manufacturer used during the testing cycle that they ran.  It has 89 minutes to go.

Pictures of Tehilla throughout 2008 are here.

http://photos.thekilners.com/Tehilla/2008/index.html

Today is Tehilla’s 2nd birthday.  She is 2!  Well done Tehilla.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday to Tehilla.

Happy birthday to you.

As James wrote, we had a flood last week and on Thursday the plumber came and took a small fortune for jiggling it away and tellinig us off for flushing wipes down.

Tonight, as the kids came out the bath and we came downstairs… Ooooops…. big flood again. Ugh! So I called the nice plumber chaps once more, and it being 7pm, they asked if we could wait til morning. Um, no, not really. It smells, and you fixed it less than a week ago, humph. So, at gone 8 in the evening Mr Plumber Man comes, with his jiggly thing, takes the lid off the drain, er, no, its not a problem here…. looks at the main drain outside and spots a root blocking the exit to the drain.

Now, we should have no more problems with floods (after all, G-d promised Noah) and have spent a small fortune in plumber bills. Hey, who needs to eat, huh?

Oh, and Shira has chicken pox. She is spotty.

Sounds like it could be an Agatha Christie novel, but the two books that it mangles together are Taken at the Flood and After the Funeral.

Anyway, last night after we bathed the kids Ruth went downstairs to start getting Tehilla ready for bed. As she got to the bottom of the stairs she slipped and nearly fell over. Somehow, (and from somewhere that we didn’t yet know) the floor was covered in water.

We quickly cleaned up the water, but there was an awful lot of it (we reckoned at least 10 litres if not more). But we couldn’t find out where it had come from. We thought that something had overflowed when we emptied the bath, but there seemed to be no sign of a source for the water.

We went to bed and when we got up this morning everything was still dry.

At one point, Ruth flushed the toilet and noticed a whole bunch of water on the floor again. It seemed as though the exit pipe from the toilet was overflowing. We called the plumber who was round within an hour. He got his jiggly pipe (I’m sure there’s a technical term for it, but it really is a pipe that jiggles) and cleared whatever the blockage happened to be. He then told us off for putting baby wipes down the toilet as that was what caused the blockage. Oops.