Well we really are living the "great Canadian adventure". It was around -26 today. We dripped the kitchen tap last night so that the water pipe wouldn't freeze. The water seemed to be running fine so we turned the drip off and went out for a couple of hours. When we returned we found that we only had a tiny trickle of water and then it stopped. We called the caretaker who came over and tried to sort our frozen pipe out but it is still frozen. Our bottled water supplies are running low with drinking, cooking and washing ourselves so Mick and I have resorted to thawing the snow out so we can flush the toilets. The microwave and cooker have never seen so much action. We are still smiling and we did chose to live out in the country.....
This evenings adventure has been almost as funny as our last night in our little cottage at the end of October. One of the children (mentioning no names) filled the toilet up so much and then flushed it. The poor toilet was unable to cope and overflowed! Mick had to crawl round on his hands and knees moping the floor with a towel - I made sure it was his (he he he).
