This morning I was up at ten past seven and out doing my Sunday run by half past. My wife and I had decided to change our normal Sunday schedule from an early breakfast and a later run. This morning I was back home at twenty to nine and after a shower we had breakfast and I must say we both thought the new schedule was better.
Last Wednesday in the early afternoon someone rang our doorbell and pounded on the door, on opening the door I saw the young lad from the flat above us running up the stairs shouting that there flat was flooded. When I reached their door I saw that the hallway and the guest WC was flooded. The mother was shouting, “I don’t know were the water is coming from! I can’t stop it”, also apparently she had slipped and hurt herself in doing so because she was complaining about her foot. I went into the bathroom were the main valves for the hot and cold water are and turned them off. The mother and her son stood there dumfounded and there was no inclination from them to start mopping up the water so that it would not seep through the ceiling and ruin our flat.
Taking stock of the situation I told them to start mopping up the water with every thing, like towels sheets and any thing else that was available. In the mean time my wife had appeared and had started to help mop up the water. On checking the other rooms the water had run into the bedroom and also into the bathroom. It took us about one and half-hours to mop up all of the water. If they had been out of the house all day like they normally are there would have been a major disaster for them and of course for us. What was the cause of the flooding? The cold-water tap pipe was corroded and had burst, if they had been out of the flat all day like they normally are there would have been a disaster not only for them but for us as well.
I have started putting photos into the Web (a thing that I always intended to do) I started with Picasa but soon f+*/# that up didn’t I? By deleting nearly all my Blog photos and the after messing around for a few hours I managed to delete all the photos that I had put in the Web as well. Thank goodness that I have a brother http://no1broadstreet.squarespace.com/ who helps me out of my predicaments, he advised me to leave Picasa and open an account with Yahoo Flickr, which I have done. I am going through the program with care this time and I hope to God that I don’t make a ball’s up of this. I have downloaded ten photos up to now and the reaction is good. I have had three comments, which for starters is very encouraging.
Now to a different subject. On Tuesday we drove to Holland, mainly to buy coffee because it’s a lot cheaper there then by us. We do a bit of some shopping as well and of course it’s a day out for us. We mostly drive to a town called Venlo, this time we arrived to find that there was a cycle race starting from the market place in the middle of the town just across from the shop from were we do our shopping. The race is from Venlo Holland to Lüttich Belgium it was shown on TV and is one of the top races in the year.
The weather the last week wasn’t up to much, in the middle of the week the temperatures sank, yes the autumn is in the air but they say the next week will be an Indian summer week. Let’s hope they are right.
Take care out there were ever you are. Tshüss
The photos are The shop in Venlo and the Motorway near were we live running from Düsseldorf to Wuppertal. The photo was taken Friday midday and that’s mostly normal on a Friday.
