We can’t get a plumber so it’s down to me to fix the washing machine – which means watching a man in a YouTube videoBorn in 1877, Engineer Lieutenant Commander Lumley Robinson was serving aboard the cruiser HMS Aboukir when it was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on 22 September 1914. Robinson spent more than eight hours in the North Sea before he was rescued. He is better known, however, for being the inventor – in 1921 – of the worm-drive clamp commonly known (and still trademarked) as the Jubilee Clip.I wouldn’t know any of this if a mouse hadn’t eaten the dishwasher’s drain hose while we were away. And by eaten, I do not mean chewed holes in. I mean the mouse had reduced the hose to a lacy shadow, no more substantial than a cobweb, along most of its length. Continue reading...
The main conceptual idea of the Tim Dowling column is the perplexing discovery of a large amount of chewed plastic plumbing found in his house, attributed to mice. The author and his wife are puzzled by the extent of the damage, questioning how mice could consume so much plastic.
This sets up a humorous exploration of the quirks of domestic life and the unexpected lengths to which rodents might go.
The main conceptual idea of the Tim Dowling column is the perplexing discovery of a large amount of chewed plastic plumbing found in his house, attributed to mice. The author and his wife are puzzled by the extent of the damage, questioning how mice could consume so much plastic. This sets up a humorous exploration of the quirks of domestic life and the unexpected lengths to which rodents might go.
