Perous Secret Diary - Keep Out

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2.30 (am)

was just getting to sleep last night as the tremendous thunder, lightning and torrential rain storms started

and mr.bunny lost his shit

a large dog who barks to let unwelcome people know he's about (to tear throats out) is good

until that large dog's barking because he thinks the house is under attack in the middle of the night

in getting up to relocate him to his cage in the cellar and wrapping it in duvets (at which point he was super happy and calm)

lucy said, 'is the sump pump working?'

(the pump in the sump, at the bottom of the outside cellar stairs, is to empty rainwater washed down the stairs which would flood the cellar)

'yes: I checked it last week' I said

double-checking of course, I found it wasn't (just when you really need it)

so out in the TORRENTIAL rain, at 2am this morning, I was repairing a pump and taking buckets of the most foul water and old piss (thanks whoever's been using that as a toilet) out by hand.

got the sump pump working, managed not to puke and went back to bed and to sleep

Lucy couldn't get back to sleep because her tooth (pictured here) ache was so bad.

Anthony Whittome of orpington has been my dentist for over 30 years

clearly THE most skilled and gentle dentist in the UK

I am SO grateful to him, always, for the care he takes of my disastrous teeth

and was very grateful that he could fit Lucy in for an emergency extraction to sort out what her local dentists had been getting wrong for her for weeks now.

she was in so much pain from this little tooth that she was almost in tears by the time we got to Anthony's.

and SO much relief was found when it was removed

and I got a little souvenir for my part in taking her there and back.

a bloody, rotten old tooth

I'll put it under my pillow tonight and see what happens

Perous Secret Diary - Keep Out: June 19, 2019