Dishwashers ARE a bad thing

News just in - it was us all along. The dishwasher has been leaking onto and through the floorboards, soaking the flat below. David and I sorted it out last night, but the damage is done...

Neighbourhood Watch

OK the situation with our neighbours is now poorly represented by this blog. Nadia is no longer the banshee of the corridor, the gorgon of the floorboards, she appears to have become a much calmer person. This is more than likely because she also now has a boyfriend. He stays over alot and when he does they play extremely loud extremely bad music and smoke together. Cigarettes, but like in the olden days, like its a pastime.

In her place a new danger has emerged. Liliana, who is another neighbour, has complained entirely reasonably of water pouring through her ceiling and our washing machine shaking the rest of it off in her bathroom... It is clear now - the real menace in this block of flats is... US.

We are the noisy tapdancers, the tremor-emitting irresponsible washers, and the flooders of other peoples houses... (to be 100% fair I, Bill Savage and our Landlord all think its rainwater that's come through, but the impact on our neighbours, and their perception of us remains...)

What happened to acid rain?

Or more particularly the fear of acid rain... In amongst all the hysteria (and it has to be said, the biblical weather), no one mentions acid rain anymore. Why is that?