there's a storm coming and horsemouth has a problem with the drains

 don, moki and eagle-eye cherry 1973 at jazz jamboree in poland. 

don cherry, trumpet and doussn'guni,

dodou gouriand, soprano;

christer bothén, doussn'guni, tenor; 

bobo stensson, piano; 

jane robertson, cello; 

palle danielsson, bass, 

bengt berger, drums, tabla; 

moki cherry, tamboura (and the textile art behind the band)

and eagle-eye cherry (dammit we missed his birthday 7th may 1968)

this time last year (and into june) horsemouth was mad for this stuff. it's a pleasure to be reminded of it.

oh dear there's a storm coming and horsemouth has a problem with the drains

yup. yesterday afternoon (after putting in the runner beans and having been for a walk on the common) horsemouth noticed that the level of water in the drains near the house was very high. so he opened up the inspection hatches . (the water was very high in these as well). he decided it seemed to him that the blockage was between the last inspection cover by the house  and the septic tank itself. he drained the inspection cover sink with a bucket (ew), chucked some enzymic cleaner down there and rodded through from the house side of it as far as he could and this morning he will rod through from the septic tank side of things (and chuck some enzymic cleaner down there) and see if that clears the blockage. if that fails there is only phoning a drainage company (and this with several days of heavy rain coming in). 

after that he had a shower (not thinking for a second that this would add water to the inspection cover sink and left his clothes out to be rained on).

remind him to cover up the runner beans before the storm hits tonight.  

ok so far today success (he thinks) with the drains. he's not convinced with the covering for the runner beans (he thinks the decision to put them out rather than to wait was dumb) but the weather forecast doesn't show strong winds so he may just get away with it. his mother tried to give him some advice on it but frankly horsemouth was not that receptive.