After the shenanigans of the gas last night I was a bit behind schedule, but planning to have a nice shower and then get to bed in good time. It wasn’t to be though… Sarah phoned at 10:40 to say there was a leak in the toilet and water was coming through to the downstairs ceiling.
Barry and Rosemary were great and popped straight over to help out. By this time Sarah had turned off the water supply to the cistern and emptied it, and that seemed to have stopped it for now. By the time Sarah got to bed it was about 1am.
6:15 in the morning and Sarah was up to get ready for her morning drips. Barry and Rosemary came around at 7 – they’d stay in the house to let the plumber in whilst Sarah was out. Meanwhile, short of sleep and with an itchy bum from 4 insect bites that got her in the night, Sarah got her supercharge drips.
Luckily the plumber was there fairly early so by the time Sarah was back home, everything was fixed – a perished O-ring between the cistern and the toilet now replaced, and another slightly leaky gland fixed too. Without Barry and Rosemary I think Sarah would have to have stayed in Oxford a bit longer, so a big thanks to them for their help.
Whilst Sarah said goodbye to her parents, I said goodbye to Neil and Christine on Comfortably Numb, who were off at 7:40 to go back through the Liverpool link. We might see them again around Chester / Ellesmere Port, but they’re headed there via the Manchester Canal whilst we go around the other way.
Sarah was back in Liverpool on the 2:42. I was stood at the platform to meet her, but I wasn’t expecting the huge numbers of people coming off the train. Sarah later told me it had been packed, with lots of people having to stand in the aisles. The Netball World Cup starting today in Liverpool probably didn’t help.
As we walked back to Oliver we saw a Bumblebee.
We walked back through the Netball fan-park, where I’d earlier seen the Barbados team doing a photo-shoot. They also had a large drum band playing earlier – I could hear them quite clearly from Oliver!
Back on Oliver, we enjoyed watching Silver Fox‘s latest Vlog, where Oliver, Sarah and I make a few brief appearances on the Ribble Link crossing. We also saw Ben arrive on Breeze, so said hello and had a nice catch up with him.
Sarah is rather done in by the lack of sleep and the stress of the leaks, so an early night beckons. Hopefully, the next few weeks will be trouble-free!