The sky is falling down
Posted on November 15, 2006
Filed Under Outside Dublin, Dollymount, Rant, chancers, money, not funny, photography, winter | Comments Off
Damn, the roof is leaking – badly. I heard a drip drip noise last night when I went to bed but I couldn’t be bothered investigating what it was. So I convinced myself that it was just the rain falling oddly against the window. So I ignored it.
Well, tonight the drip drip noise has graduated to a bulge in the ceiling. I couldn’t ignore the visual evidence so I clambered into the attic to ‘ave a look. Damn. There’s actually five spots where the rain has gotten through! And some of the trusses look suspiciously damp as well where they join the wall. I even found a snail living up there. Bastard’s probably sitting pretty. Only my supremely high vegetarian principles prevented me from drowning him in the water tank up there.
And there’s an international football match on tonight in Lansdowne Rd so there’s no chance of getting an emergency roofer out. Ireland are only playing Malta in a friendly (I think) but it’s the last game ever in Lansdowne Road stadium so no roofer is going to miss that. Especially when it’s raining.
And I’ve got to go to Northern Ireland tomorrow so it won’t get fixed tomorrow either. And I going away for the weekend so I’m not sure if I’ll come home to a house?
Even worse, I bought a lotto ticket today. I may as well rip it up now. I should eat it as it’s fibre content is probably more valuable to me now.
Still, on the positive side, they say bad things happen in three’s. So worthless lotto ticket, leaky roof and visit Northern Ireland (driving in inclement weather) counts as three. Maybe I’ll win the €170M Euro Millions jackpot on Friday. Now there’s a thought! hehe.
Maybe I’ll buy a new car after I’ve won?
Or a boat so big it won’t fit into it’s berth properly!
One of the tags for this post is ‘chancers’. That’s because the last lot of roofers fixed my roof cost me a fortune two years ago.
