Flushed with success.

It really sums up retirement when the most exciting thing which has happened today (so far ) is the fitting of a new syphon and inlet valve in the cloakroom cistern. A neighbour who has the skills did the installation and I was the gopher getting all the parts from the builders merchants.This took up most of the morning and this afternoon the rain has been horrendous with much surface water on the roads and streams running out of fields. An improvement looms tonight when we visit friends for supper and it's likely we will arrive at their door resembling drowned rats, if the rain continues.