o magic tree, o magic tree, o where is the magic tree?

so yesterday we had a flood out the back of the house. the eco toilet flush jammed on in a fit of uneconess – indeed it’s difficult to know how less eco it could be – and this appeared to be causing something of a problem as the water came up our kitchen drain and just sort of stood around looking foolish and not knowing where to go. yuk.

Wondered about get a long rod or something. But stopped wondering that fairly quickly. 

Wondered if we had a collapased sewer and swiftly envisaged the kitchen being taken down, dug up and….

Phoned for drains expert. Two hours later he stuck a jet down our front drain and shifted the block. It’s technically called a syphon and it probably hasn’t been cleaned for like, decades. With a suck and a splash and a swosh the whole lot vanished.

Leaving in its trail a rather unpleasant odour(sp?) knocking around the hall way and living room,

O magic tree, where are you now?

Actually I might actually prefer walking around smelling of that drain than Space.NK.Men. Is someone going to sue me for that remark?

apologies

Sorry not to provide more updates recently. Been busy:

Unpacking boxes

writing 3 articles

1 novel (unfinished)

organising 40th birthday party (am old man soon)

taking arlo to doc’s in London

doing above while avoiding snow

worrying about house

-for some reason am convinced the plaster’s going to suddenly fall off the wall, the kitchen floor will cave in and one day when we flush the loo in the upstairs bathroom the soil pipe will fail and there’ll be a jet of toilet flush shooting across the garden into nextdoor neighbours… not that it keeps me up at night. Oh no.

Also convinced the fact that bulbs keep blowing and fire alarm goes off loudly if you even whisper the fact that you’ve got the oven on is evidence that the electricians stitched us up.

Need sleep, methinks.

Arlo thinks our lampshades are lovely. And so does his finger puppet dolphin. And they are.

what, me worry?

Received more cosmetic products today – facial wash – I now have way more facial products than my girlfriend.

With the product was a sample of ‘shave lube’ which was fine until I read that if I get it in my eyes I should panic and wash it out asap.

Pondering this I then find the facial wash has the same warning….