MONO MONDAY - VANTAGE

“Vantage : a place or position affording a good view of something.

Today was “Bacon Buttie Day” - the day our boiler has its annual service and to encourage our plumber, Mark, to come, I just have to text him and ask him if he wants bacon butties for his breakfast.

He is quite hard to get hold of, because he is always so busy, but I managed to tie him down to an appointment at 8.45 this morning and surprise, surprise, he was on time!!  When he got out of his van he shouted “Ho, Ho, Ho, Santa Claus is coming to town!” He is quite a character!  When our neighbour, Lynn, popped round a few minutes later, she thanked him for waking her on her only day off - oh dear!!  Of course, Mark made a lot more noise when he left, but there was no sign of Lynn - she had probably gone back to bed!

Mark serviced the boiler and then I made the bacon butties, so said that in exchange for those, he had to be my Blip for today, which he willingly grudgingly agreed to.  So here are Mark and Mr. HCB just about to enjoy their butties and taken from my vantage point, rather than a selfie with the three of us!

We had just started eating, when Mark spat something out of his mouth, which later turned out to be a dead bee, and said that he had found it in his bacon buttie - I screamed, but he and Mr. HCB just laughed - it was something he had found upstairs when he was servicing the boiler and had decided to trick me!  

The service is now done and the upstairs toilet is now flushing properly after the gubbins inside had been replaced, so all is well here.  Mr. HCB is happy because he is now out in the garden cutting down the tomatoes plants in the greenhouse to put them in the green bin before it goes out for the last time this year.  However, he was NOT happy to see next door’s cat scratching in one of his raised beds - so we need to get the fence between us cat-proofed - and soon.

I found this quote on Google but have to say, I use mine from the top and always have done, which may account for the fact that I am not as intelligent as the person reading this!

“If you hang your toilet paper 
     so you can pull it from the bottom, 
          you're considered more intelligent 
               than someone who pulls it from the top.”