Fun With Water

The overflow pipe kept on overflowing. I fiddled about in the roof space and elsewhere and did no good so we called in the plumber. He arrived first thing this morning.

We discovered in the process of fiddling about that turning the taps on downstairs takes all the water from the mains and is a crude but effective way of stopping the flow to the overflowing tank.  We couldn't find the stopcock to turn the mains off so we spent the night with the downstairs taps turned full on.

If we hadn't the water might have come over the top of the tank and down into our bedroom beneath.

The Quality Of Mercy

SOCA (described as Britain's FBI) has evidence that numerous "bluechip companies", law firms and wealthy individuals have been hiring criminals to hack phones and emails just as the News of the World got itself closed down for doing. It is, however, refusing to name the perps for fear this might "substantially undermine" their financial viability.

Such consideration, such tenderness of heart!  It fair brings a tear to your eye.

So can we expect this same courtesy to be extended to your everyday mugger, shoplifter and benefit fraudster?

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