Urgh. Just so you know...

[dc]

Just in case of the remote chance that an asteroid hits the planet and we are among the only survivors, thrown together in adversity to survive and attempt diligently to repopulate the Earth, there is something you really need to know:

I am NOT a morning person.

I do not respond well to complicated sentences before I am well-caffeinated and have been awake (in the loosest possible sense) for maybe an hour. Maybe two. Sometimes three. Depends. Complicated sentences, by the way, mean anything more complex than: Here's coffee! or Do you want food? Anything involving abstract nouns or subordinate clauses, you can forget about it. Because I will have, before I have finished replying with, Aooorghhhh... Leemeealone....

This is always true, but especially when I have been late to bed. As I was last night, having anticipated a very slow start to the day.

As you can imagine, I did not respond well to being woken at 06:00 with the information that water was coming in from upstairs again. Grrr.

I am caffeinated, but not fully awake yet.

So at the moment the water is turned off. For the whole building. I have heard nothing to suggest that the people upstairs have got a plumber yet. Spiffing, ain't it?

[ETA (10:55) - So, they have had plenty of time to get hold of a plumber. Except that they haven't. The Water Board were out because a chap in the top flat who had not heard the knocking earlier so that we could tell him about turning the water off called them. Flat upstairs, no response when they knocked. So I went and knocked. Has Ms Sophie Adam called the plumber? No. She has called her father, so that he can try and get a plumber. I suggested quite forcefully to her boyfriend (of course she did not come to the door) that they get one, perhaps contacting the factor to get an emergency plumber's number? He said they would...]

[ETA (11:14) - It appears that this Sophie Adam, who is someone I have only encountered once... oddly enough, the last time water was coming in from upstairs, is refusing to do anything. The factor has been on the phone to her, and despite his explaining that everyone else has been doing exactly what we should have been doing, she is being recalcitrant. It may come to the environmental health bods yet.]

[ETA (11:28) - The factor must have got further than he thought; a plumber has appeared!]

[ETA (12:49) - The water is on, and as far as I can see there is no drip. It is possible the plumber has fixed it. I don't know, because the wonderfully carefree Sophie Adam has done bugger all to tell us anything. Incidentally, we are pretty sure that after rhionnach had been up early this morning to tell them about the leak, when we turned the water off, they went back to bed until my gentle tapping on the door got a response after the Water Board chap had tried and failed. Bloody marvellous, isn't it?]

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Ah. What I call a normal person. ;o)