Thursday 21 November 2024: That was the day that was

We were up with the lark on Wednesday because the plumber was coming. He got here at 10am and had to crawl up into the loft. The loft hatch is at one end of the building, the burst pipe was at the other. But when he got up there he said it wasn’t a burst, it was rodent damage. And that the rodent was nibbling through everything. Oh dear. That will be that cheeky chappy the squirrel. 😟

Fortunately there was a piece of spare pipe up there, so he was able to do a quick repair. But when he got down we had to give him a good brush down as he was now phobic about rodent droppings all over him. We’ll probably have to get pest control out now, as we can’t have an animal eating its way through our house. But I’d sooner drive it away than kill it, if it is the squirrel.

We had a dog before, didn’t we? That would have kept any rodents out of the house. Perhaps we could borrow Hawley or Poppy more often? We left the light on in the loft overnight and that seems to have stopped any tap-dancing that was going on up there. I’m sure there are other humane ways of dealing with it too, but I have to research it. 

Our ladders are in the garage, so when the plumber went, the poet went to move my car so he could get the ladders. But my car wouldn’t start. And then we couldn’t get the bonnet open. We got under the bonnet in the end and thought perhaps the battery was flat. The car is 7 years old and it hasn’t had a new battery in all that time. It’s also the first time ever that it hasn’t started.

We got a search party out for the jump leads. But we couldn’t find them. The poet had to go for a chest x-ray later, so we decided to get the leads and charger at the same time. And that also meant we were getting our tea while we were out too. 

In the meantime, I finished the monthly date work and put the list of anniversaries and dates to one side to cool. I shared yesterday’s blog post everywhere. And I did a tech declutter on Facebook. But before we knew it, it was time to go out and I moved everything else to today.

And that was it. The day was over. It was a bit of a shitty day all round, as it happened (I can’t go into detail about everything). But hopefully our three bad things are out of the way for now.

Temperatures are down in the minuses today (Centigrade). We’ll be putting the car battery on charge and maybe taking the car for a run. Then I have a dental appointment. 😱