Sunday Selections # 744

 Long ago, Kim of Frog Ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections. 

A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please. 

Nothing rude or vulgar though.

And we don't mind at all if other bloggers care to join us.

The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I join in as do a few others. Andrew is one.  Messymimi is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look.

Wisewebwoman has also been joining us occasionally.

Starting today with a little drainage problem, yes, another one but not the bathroom this time,

but the kitchen sink would randomly spit up water from its drain, other times filling itself with soapy water also coming up through the drain. It would reach the top, then slowly drain away over about twenty minutes. On a Thursday I eventually called a plumber who said he'd be there Tuesday. 

Meanwhile:

the problem got worse with water now not draining, but running across the draining board, 

onto the bench and under the microwave,

dripping down to the floor and the lower shelf inside that cabinet also got wet with paper labels on things becoming saturated and peeling away.

I ran (ha ha) upstairs and dragged my neighbour down to my kitchen to show her  what is happening every time she empties her sink and suggested neither of us uses our sinks until after the plumber has been.

I tried washing up in the bathroom basin, but there is very liitle space on either side

so the drainer had to sit on the floor (bending and stretching is good for you, right? and why does my saucepan look brown? It's burgundy)

the next day I switched to a large plastic bowl which I filled from the boiled kettle and then carried into the bathroom to empty it into the laundry tub once I was finished. That worked a lot better.

Tuesday, as promised, the Viking  plumber arrived, seven feet tall and seven feet wide with a very gentle face and voice. He began trying to unblock my sink with a plunger thingy but that didn't work, so he got that metal "snake", uncapped the end of the outside pipe (see where it disappears under the building? awkward) and set the machine running.

See that river of black sludge? I wasn't quick enough to get a photo before he started hosing it all away, looked and smelled like thick motor oil, after it was drained from a well-used motor.

That dried mucky grey/black patch is where it landed in the garden right under the open drain, from there it went across and down the path.

in better news, the jades are flowering,

my plum trees have lost all their leaves,

while a different tree further down is already budding! Spring is months away!

"no-one" sent me this photo of the Wednesday full moon still in the sky as she left for work Thursday morning.

later in the day she sent me this "Grumpy face" cloud formation.