Rain, rain, go away...

...and never flipping come back!

Yesterday lunch time I had to go to the shops, to get some goodies - it was a beautiful day, I was on a bit of a retro jag with "REM - Green" playing full blast in the stereo, windows down.

Lovely.

Three hours later the sky turned black, HUGE amounts of rain fell, we could even hear it above the sound of the machinery on the shop floor, and then HUGE hailstones followed - everybody lined up at our window looking out, like we'd never seen weather before.

Then, just as I was about to leave I heard a popping noise in the dark room and then really loud GUSHING noises.

I opened the door and was greeted by three foot high bursts of water coming out of the pipes connecting the film processor to the drains. Eek!!! There's lots of electrics on the wall near the drains too... I opened our studio door to see if there were any engineering bods about, and water gushed in all over my flip flopped feet!

Pure bedlam - all of the drains had backed up because of the rain; thankfully it was only the surface water drains, not the sewers.

So - I got an engineer in, and left him and Evil Co-Slave to it, while I ran out to my car to go home. Which is when I discovered that I'd left my windows open 4-5 cms.

Bleahahgagh!

Had to sit on soggy seats all the way home - I didn't have a coat so ran up the drive with my bag on top of my head, opened the back door - dived in, and stepped right into a HUGE puddle in the middle of my kitchen...

I looked up at the celing, and couldn't see any water damage - I was just about to scold the dogs, when I noticed the roller blind on the window was actually hanging off... my eyes glanced along the window and saw a huge damp patch in the reveal.

There is a quite large crack in the wall outside, but we were told it was only cosmetic and nothing to worry about.

Apparently we DO need to worry, because it's now letting in water.

Dave was supposed to get cracking on his dissertation today, and now he's obviously going to have to sort out the pointing instead.


Bum truffles.