94. Rhodin Drive

 

Moving from a large spacious 3 bedroomed house to a small 2 bedroomed villa was a problem. Where were we to put all our stuff. We had disposed of quite a lot of excess belongings but it was still a squeeze to get things in. We still have some boxes that have not been unpacked but I just don’t want to think about them.

 

One very large problem was the laundry. We have a large washing machine and a large dryer and they would not both fit into the laundry together. I thought that we would have to have the dryer in the garage or maybe in the dining room as if it was left in the laundry, we would have to squeeze around it to get to the back door. The removal guys had put the washing machine into place to the left of the wash basin but the space between that and the hot water tank was too small to fit the dryer so that was sitting in the middle of the laundry. I measured the space and it was just about 30 millimeters shorter than the dryer. Then I examined the hot water tank and found that that was about a 50-millimeter gap between it and the wall to its left. How I wished we could just push the water tank a little to the left and then we could fit the dryer, but I did not think that that was possible. I told Jonathan and Jace what I would have like and they thought that it might be possible if they used flexible hoses to change the plumbing. Obviously, we had more pressing things to do at that time so nothing was done immediately. One thing we needed to do was to back to the old house in Barry Street to collect the TV aerial cable we had left behind by mistake.  Jace and I went together in the car and as we were driving away from the house, we saw one of our old neighbours.  He waved us down and asked how our move was going. I remembered that he was a licensed plumber although he was not working in that field anymore and told him the problem we were having with our laundry. Jace told him that he and his dad were thinking of moving the tank and using flexible hoses. He said “You shouldn’t use flexible hoses for that job. What you need is a good plumber”. I laughed and said “Where do you think I could find one of those?” Well, the upshot of it was that he said that he would come around in a couple of days to have a look at the job. He advised that it was an easy job for him to move the tank and arranged to come in a few days to do it.

 

He did a great job; we could now slide the dryer into the enlarged space between the tank and the washing machine and my laundry was neat and tidy. What a pleasure! Our friendly plumber refused to accept any payment for his work. We have been blessed with kind people who are so generous and kind to us.

 

 Before

After

What a difference 20 millimeters made to my life.