When I was blogging last weekend, I felt I had forgotten something. It wasn’t until I saw this weeks Eightlem News that I remembered. Last Thursday, the overflow pipe was running constantly, and so Tricia went into the loft for a looksee. She lifted the lidof the main tank, and discovered that the ball cock had eroded and broken off, and water was starting to overflow in the loft. Well it seems there was much frenzy, which involved getting Robbie into the loft, and holding the end of the ball cock that remained. Tricia got hold of a local plumber who came and replaced the ball cock, and the panic was over.

Tricia and Ellie are on Brownie camp this week. Nikki was around till Thursday, she is now in Hatfield for a few days working at Homebase. She is a little bit down as her car has a problem, that may well be terminal. Robbie is at home, he was working this evening. I walked up to the pub and had a guinness with some friends there. Rob joined us for a cider when he finished working.

Yesterday I was at a BUPA clinic for a full health assessment – this was part of my package for working at BP. I weigh 14st 2lb presently and they suggest my range should be between 12st 10 and 13 st 6, so I intend to work hard and get just over half a stone off and get down to the level they suggest. One of the tests was a lung capacity test, and the report suggested I have the lungs of a 25 year old ! Not bad for a 49 year old… all that swimming paying off. I get the results of the blood tests next week.

Oh well, it is a busy schedule at work tomorrow, so I had better go to bed.