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.