I took Sophie to uni today as Ian was coming around to the house to help Keith investigate why our loos make such a terrible noise when they're flushed! When I arrived home he was already there so hopefully they can get it fixed soon! It's such an embarrassing noise!
Sophie sent me a message during the day to say that she'd sorted out her video with the help of her friend Danni, so that was a relief. Keith and Ian suspected that the loo problem had something to do with an air bubble in the water pipes so have decided to leave things until our gas engineer comes out to us on Saturday. They did bleed the new towel rail in the en suite though as the bottom was hot while the top was cold. What those two men did when they installed our new bathroom is anyone's guess!
It's been a cold and dingy day today with not a great deal of sunshine and some areas of the country have been forecast to have snow. Although we're supposed to be getting rain tonight and into tomorrow I don't think we'll see any of the white stuff!
We collected Sophie from uni at 3pm and she had a rant about an assignment she'd submitted and which had been quite severely criticised by one of her lecturers. So, we've gone from being happy about the video to sad about the assignment...it's a real roller-coaster of emotions at the moment and I'm sure I remember that last year was very similar when she started uni!
In the evening, after an early dinner of curry, Sophie and I walked up to the village to go to the Parish Council meeting with two of our neighbours, Simon and Lynn. It was a horrible night with a persistent drizzle in the air so we took an umbrella, just in case! We all had some issues to raise at the meeting, namely the speed of the cars driving past our estate, the narrow bridge where there has been several near-misses and the maintenance of the flower boxes, from which we had those glorious poppies stolen in the summer. Simon also wanted to bring up the subject of cars being parked on the pavement as he has a son who uses a wheelchair and finds it difficult to navigate the path.
I knew a couple of people at the meeting and firstly we were quizzed as to why we were there, which I found a bit unwelcoming and rude! We stated that we had issues to talk about and these were explored first, before the meeting started. Our ideas were listened to but I'm not sure anything will be done about them, to be honest. We can only wait and see.
We had to sit and listen to the rest of the meeting which was a bit boring and Sophie took to playing a game on her phone which she hid under her scarf! When we emerged into the night it was raining properly so we had a wet walk home! We stood and chatted to Lynn before we went home and learned some disturbing information about the large field that backs onto our estate. Apparently it's a "land bank" and has around 137 building plots on it...this was news to me but Lynn assured me that it's doubtful it'll ever be built on. Let's hope not!
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