Date: 09 December 2010 17:39:37
Well, having been a drama queen throughout the last 5 years of this PhD, it's probably fitting that this afternoon, (hopefully) the penultimate day of writing my thesis, I went out of the living room to make myself a cup of tea and heard what sounded like Niagara Falls. There is a burst pipe in our close, and water was also pouring into our bedroom. I called HD to come home from work, and together we have been running round with sloshing buckets of water trying to limit the damage. HD thought it was like an episode of It's a Knockout - just without the giant comedy foam feet.
The water has been turned off, and the plumber can't do anything else till the guy in the flat upstairs comes back, as the problem is most likely coming from there.
The thesis will still be finished for tomorrow. But it is also providing some marvellous material for my memoirs (provisional title: My Life The Farce).