Dampened Spirits

Thought things were going too well - having managed to spend quite a lot of time recently doing creative things - everything had to stop yesterday as I discovered a huge wet patch in the dining room and spent most of the day trying to find out where it had come from.

Andy the plumber kindly called on his way home and thinks the radiator pipe must have got knocked and caused a huge leak.  No one has owned up to such a deed.  Was it the electrician or was it one of Andy's lads?  Do not think we will ever know.  He has now put a seal on the pipe to stop any more water accidentally escaping.

There is now wet underlay, carpet, packed cardboard boxes and a wooden blanket chest which could have got water into the contents.  It also smells atrocious which is how I discovered the problem in the first place.  We do not go in the Dining Room at the moment - apart from the fact a lot of the plaster is missing off the walls, it has no radiator connected and it is therefore FREEZING COLD.

Final straw this week was discovering another squirrel stealing the bird food ......