Nightmare Weekend

This weekend turned out to be a bit of a fiasco. The plug hole in our shower got blocked so badly that the water wouldn't go down it at all so I went to B&Q and bought some super duper strength drain unblocker. Anyway to cut a long story short, we put the stuff down the plug hole and waited over night, it hadn't seemed to have made any difference by the morning so Ross put a tiny bit more down. He ran down the stairs shouting "I've done it, the water's going down" and as he hit the bottom step all our electricity went off.

We thought this was a bit strange but weren't really too surprised because whenever we try to fix something in this house something else breaks in the process. When we tried to change the lightfitting in the bathroom we ended up with no lights in there or on the landing. When we fixed a gas leak in the fire our boiler broke because it had to be turned off and wouldn't come back on. When we fixed a leak in our roof we ended up with broken and blocked guttering. The list goes on but I think you get the picture.

Anyway we managed to turn the electricity back on with the help of an electrician over the phone and managed to isolate the problem, it was the down stairs lighting ring. So we had no lights down stairs at all but at least everything else was working. I then went upstairs to have a shower and heard Ross shrieking from downstairs. I ran down to find that water was running down the ceiling of the utility room and right down the light fitting (doesn't take a genius to work out why the lights went out does it). The upshot is that the super duper drain unblocker seems to have dissolved our pipes! This really is the house that twat built.

On top of all this I had pre ordered Ross and I a copy of the new Harry Potter book over a month ago, to be delivered on the day of release (Saturday). We had been looking forward to getting our new books for months. Well of course they didn't turn up. I felt like weeping. My lovely sister went out and stole me a copy from Steve's shop and brought it over on Saturday night though and Ross and I sat in bed sharing it. It's really good so far too.

On the plus side though I had my first driving lesson and it went really well. I really liked the instructor and I booked 10 lessons in advance. I'm really determined to do it this time!