Elderly cat breathing difficulties when purring

[redfrock]

well not quite everywhere - but yesterday we had to dig a trench outside our conservatory because the water was up to the tops of the toes of my croc boots, all around the outside of the conservatory, and sitting against the walls. Now today I have just found the conservatory roof is leaking (in exactly the same spot as when we moved in 18 months ago - supposedly fixed ). It is in a corner and it is only because I heard a dripping noise. It is coming through quite heavily. My sofa bed and cushions and soaking wet. I can't move any of it until OH is home because I am still recovering from my op , so I have had to try and balance a long, deep (new, not muddy) plant trough thing and some towels to try and prevent it getting any worse. Then I looked outside and the water is all up around the outside of the conservatory again, and rising. It has rained so much here that in two days our metal wheelbarrow was full to the brim and overflowing. The rain is coming is so heavily and at such an angle that the roof on the chook's covered run isn't much use, and the bunnies area is a like a marsh, oh and it has bent and broken a lot of our veg in our raised bed.

 

The thing is the conservatory could be leaking because of a broken roof tile. We back onto a cricket pitch and some of the teenage lads think it is fun to kick the ball as hard and as high as possible over the fence, resulting in repeated damage to both mine and my neighbour's rooves. This is what has caused the problem before. My neighbour's conservatory roof was smashed by them once. Most of the lads are ok. There just seems to be a 'core' group. that and clay soil, crabby-built conservatories and heavy rain

 

sorry for the moan

[The Dogmother]

Oh dear, that sounds dire Claire. I hope that you get it sorted soon. Do you need to dig a soakaway between the garden and the conservatory?

[Tessa the Duchess]

Sounds horrible It is frustrating being unable to move things which are getting rained on, and I hate living with buckets being dripped in. You do have my sympathies. It has rained non stop here for days now. Then this morning the sun shone and it was warm and dry so I pegged out two lines of washing. In a couple of hours it was pouring again and the washing is still out there MY covered run is not coping at all well, the Hemcore which was all light and fluffy is now a muddy soggy mess. The icing on the cake was when the garage phoned to say the van had failed the MOT

 

Tessa

[Lesley]

We've had rain for days as well - and a leak in the conservatory We were lucky in that we didn't have any soft furnishings under the leak. I hope it soon eases for you.

 

I had to drive to my sister's this morning and all the surrounding villages are/have been flooded and there are loads of trees down. The big J15 island on the M40 was closed last night at rush hour.

 

Vile weather

[Christian]

I hope you get the leak sorted soon Redfrock.

 

I drove back from Salisbury yesterday as had to take my Mini to the garage.

 

(AnnieP broke it on the way to Lesley's on Sunday )

 

On the way back there was an almighty downpour and the road flooded in front of me

 

The water was coming over the bonnet! I had to drive through it.

 

Hopefully the rain will stop soon. It's getting me down now. The water butts are full, so enough is enough!

[redfrock]

Thanks for all the kind words

I know what you mean Tessa - DH wrote my car off yesterday . I keep telling him that as long as it was the car he wrote off and not himself it doesn't matter. He is very much in one piece thank god (unlike my car). I loved my little car - the insurance company are just in the process of deciding if they will repair it as it is a borderline case, and I'm am doing my best to beg - trouble is fluttering your eyelashes doesn't work down the phone! All I can say is VW Lupos are amazing in a crash - it is just body work damage. Keep your fingers crossed.

 

I think Andy is planning something like a soak away Clare.... he did tell me, but it washed over my head (no pun intended!)

[Mutrix Farmers]

Hi Claire

 

sorry to hear of the flood, hope you get it all sorted out soon!

 

We certainly have had more than our fair share of rain in this part of the country this week. We had a thunderstorm on Tuesday night that sounded like it was directly over the house (OH went to ckeck the girls in the small hours - must be love - and they weren't making a sound, eggs have been a bit erratic over the last couple of days though!)

 

At least it's supposed to be dry now for a couple of days.

[redfrock]

That thunderstorm was a corker wasn't it Sara! Good on your OH to check on the girls. Mine was in such a deep slumber he didn't notice a thing - not even when I prodded him in the ribs to tell him about the storm - well if I was kept awake by it, it was only right that he should be too

[Egluntyne]

A leaking conservatory seems to be the latest forum "must have" .

 

What a nuisance.

 

You won't want to hear this but we have had the most glorious day here, it got to 19 degrees C at one point.

 

Yesterday was another story.

 

It was so foggy first thing that I could barely make out the Henpire State Building at the bottom of the garden, and when Landgirl came to look at my cube in the afternoon, we got soaked to the skin. Literally.

 

Oh to be in England etc........

[The Dogmother]

Sorry to hear about your car Claire. As you say, at least Andy is OK - it would take a lot to dent him though

 

The floods weren't too bad here and the Cherwell managed to stay in its banks.

[Lesley]

You must have shoved it all up here Clare - we had flash floods everywhere

 

I wonder how Liz (Ubereglu) is getting on? - it was bad in her area yesterday........

 

...... and The Bath and West Show? - I hope Eglus float!

[The Dogmother]

Sorry Lesley, we seem to have missed the worst yesterday. I know how bad it gets round your way though.

 

I heard on the radio this morning that the south west has had some dreadful floods