Cold Heads and Hot Water
Apr. 28th, 2003 08:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
major_clangerFirst day back at work, and I'm suffering from Icky Head - it feels like someones been pouring polyfilla into my sinuses. Makes a change from my normal habit of getting a cold only when I go on leave. Except that happened last week; how can I get a cold twice six days apart?
Looks like our power shower has been fixed. It's been misbehaving for a while lately, suddenly going very hot in the middle of a shower. I eventually got fed up enough to send in a fault report to the base accommodation office, and got a call this morning from the contract plumber asking when would be convenient for him to take a look. We agreed on 'in 5 minutes' so I took an early lunch break. After I described the symptoms he peered at the shower, thought a bit and then got out the ladder to look in the roof. After 10 minutes of plumbing noises he descended to inform me that, as he had suspected, there was nothing wrong with the shower itself. Rather, our cold water tank is very small and had a sticky ball valve, so wasn't filling properly. The shower runs off it, so now and again it was just running dry half-way through a shower. He'd fixed the valve so with any luck we won't have this problem again (but![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bugshaw and I shouldn't both have really long showers one after the other).
And I've just had the amusing experience of watching two old colleagues of mine representing the RAF on University Challenge: The Professionals, where the Light Blue Team beat the Hitting Rocks With Hammers Team.bugshaw had the amusing experience of watching me yell "Gibbs!", "Saturn!" and other sundry answers interspersed with scurrilous anecdotes about the team members in question...
MC
Looks like our power shower has been fixed. It's been misbehaving for a while lately, suddenly going very hot in the middle of a shower. I eventually got fed up enough to send in a fault report to the base accommodation office, and got a call this morning from the contract plumber asking when would be convenient for him to take a look. We agreed on 'in 5 minutes' so I took an early lunch break. After I described the symptoms he peered at the shower, thought a bit and then got out the ladder to look in the roof. After 10 minutes of plumbing noises he descended to inform me that, as he had suspected, there was nothing wrong with the shower itself. Rather, our cold water tank is very small and had a sticky ball valve, so wasn't filling properly. The shower runs off it, so now and again it was just running dry half-way through a shower. He'd fixed the valve so with any luck we won't have this problem again (but
bugshaw and I shouldn't both have really long showers one after the other).And I've just had the amusing experience of watching two old colleagues of mine representing the RAF on University Challenge: The Professionals, where the Light Blue Team beat the Hitting Rocks With Hammers Team.
bugshaw had the amusing experience of watching me yell "Gibbs!", "Saturn!" and other sundry answers interspersed with scurrilous anecdotes about the team members in question...MC
