The other week.......Dad, why is there water coming out under the bathroom door? I run up the hallway and fling the door open to a bathroom full of steam, check shower,nothing, check vanity taps, nothing, notice steaming hot water coming out from under vanity (when it had cleared enough to see) dive hand into cupboard feeling for regulation stop taps, no taps, panicking, runs out to the main only to discover that the main and it's cover that were updated recently by the council have changed and you need a screwdriver to lift the cover, run to shed to find screwdriver, run back, lift lid, no bloody tap, instead the new mains have an obscure lever underneath so you have to fumble around in the mud,frogs and spiders to locate it, water now off and hand starting to sting from diving it into a cupboard of hot steaming water, check's back inside vanity to find a broken flexi cable.
To add insult to injury the insurance assessor informs me he put his daughter through university on what he has made from broken flexi cables alone.
Shortly after this my computer stopped working so upon deciding nothing else could possibly go wrong we bought a new one, arriving home from the computer store we were greeted by the sound of running water again, this time the hot water cylinder had burst, possibly should have just stayed in bed that day.
Phill