Friday 20th August 2010
It was a nice start to the day but got misty for dinner time so obviously Pam thought that it had not been good all day.
The long awaited man from the water company eventually came with his metal detector and map to find the stopcock for our house.
The map was useless and the metal detector was worse. The common sense of the water board man was however sucessful. There was no stopcock marked on his map because there was no stopcock. There was therefore no metal cover over the non existent stockcock for the metal detector to detect.
The clever little man (well he wasn't actually little, it is just a figure of speech, all men that come to fix things are obliged to be little) decided that as he could find the meter for the farm up the road, then they had probably taken a "T" off to our house just before the meter. Sure enough, about a yard from the meter was a hole covered by a stone flag just to confuse metal detectors. In the hole was the stopcock for the farm and the "T" off to our house. All I have to do is dig down further along our pipe and fit a new stopcock. Job Done.
The builders got the first few courses of blocks up, so now the floor goes in and then Duncan can put the frame up "I think".
Tescos again then David and Claire's for a cuppa and back home.
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