plumbing

Drama on the London Underground

13 July 2024 9:00 am

The girl lay slumped against a wall in front of me and someone ran to push the emergency button. I…

Lefties don’t know anything about farming

20 April 2024 9:00 am

The artists and hippies are re-wilding their land, which is to say doing nothing at all to it and watching…

A draining experience: Insignificance, by James Clammer, reviewed

29 May 2021 9:00 am

Spare a thought for the white van man. It’s not yet nine on a summer’s morning and already Joseph, a…

Had the kitchen shop assistant been drugged and handcuffed?

6 February 2021 9:00 am

The kitchen tap began dripping as if it knew perfectly well that this would land me in a predicament whereby…

showers

Donald Trump has made showers great again

21 December 2020 12:28 am

President Donald Trump is the best. I already thought he was great, but I became even more convinced of his…

The gloves are off with the Brothers Turnthetapoff upstairs

30 April 2016 9:00 am

The gloves are off in my battle with the two brothers who live in the flat upstairs. They have just…

All I wanted was a washer for my tap and I ended up with a new bathroom

19 March 2016 9:00 am

Diamonds are for ever. Plumbers take a lifetime. They never finish. No job is too big or small for them…

Victorian south London plumbing is pure evil

20 February 2016 9:00 am

My upstairs neighbours are terribly nice, but too naive to be allowed to renovate their flat in peace. The two…

My Chinese water torture

1 February 2014 9:00 am

Drip, drip, drip. The noise of my downstairs London conversion flat, where the plumbing was fitted by turn-of-the-century sadists who…