Water fuss 9 May 2020

Here we go agen. We is the 2 happy puppies named Samson and Delilah living on a hillside in Corfu a beautiful island in the Ionian sea.

Where does we start? We finks everyone knows ‘bout water. It is stuff wot comes out of taps mostly. Wen we wos borned we didn’t drink water only milk from a bopple wot the old lady called The Missus, that follows us around all day with a mop an bucket, fed us. We couldn’t see then and our ears were closed but it seems she bought dry stuff from the vet an mixed it wiv water an that gave us our milk wot made us grow. She sez it cost her €70 to buy all that formula powder. Wot is she on about? She never bought it The Boss did.

Then wen we wos able to walk and eat propa food we saw the big dogs drinking this clear stuff out of a bowl on the floor an we fort we’d like to have sum of this. That wasn’t no problem unless the big dogs were drinking then we had to wait until they had finished. This clear stuff we found out was called water. Wen Sammy was only very small he put his little paws up on the side of the bowl so he could look inside but the bowl tipped up an’ poured water all over him and the floor an’ it went everywhere. So the The Missus had to get her mop and clean it all up. Poor Sammy wos soaked an’ he didn’t know what to do so just stood there. The Missus got a towel and wrapped it roun’ him to dry him off. He liked that ‘cos it wos warm an cuddly.

Enyway the point of our story is wot do you do wen there is no water? Since we have lived in this house, which was 7th February 2020, the water has stopped coming 4 times. Then it means the loos can’t get flushed and our poo has to go outside on the ground instead; there is no water to keep filling the Missus’ bucket wiv; there is no water for the hoomans to put in that kettle thing that belches out steam like a dragon wot they keep filling up to make a cuppa. Wot is that about? Then we run out of water in our bowls too. We don’t get it.

Outside in the garden ( if you call it that wiv all our holes in it) there is a big black tank an’ we have found we can squeeze in beside it between the house an the tank. Because it is black it is nice an warm from the sun and no one else, not dog nor hooman, only puppies can get in that gap, so we go an’ hide in there. Well it terns out the hoomans keep spare water in there. They knew that, but we didn’t. Now it’s not our fault but anuvva puppy’s, wot lived in the house last year, It ate the electric wire that went to work the pump that connected to the black tank. The puppy wos lucky the electrickery wosn’t plugged in or it would have been deaded. Enyway ‘cos the electrickery couldn’t get into the pump the water in the big black tank had to stay there an’ not go in the house. We didn’t know this or understand this but the Missus and The Boss with the furry face did know this. In fact the Missus suggested more than once that perhaps The Boss could fix this but he didn’t fink so. So for three times it didn’t get fixed an’ the propa water came back on after a few hours. Wen it comes on it is very funny because it blows big explosions out of the taps an’ The Missus gets soaked wiv water. If we could, we would laugh at that, but no-one taught us to laugh yet.

Enyway on the fourth time of no water it went on for hours an hours an all night. Hoomans are not ‘llowed to speak to each uvva cos of this virus thing so The Boss went to talk to the neighbour up the hill and they shouted to each uvva so they didn’t get too close. The Neighbour had called the water peeps on the phone every hour to ask for the water to come back but they didn’t fix it ‘cos they had no spares. We don’t know wot is a spare. So they had to wait until the next day wen there wos a spare. By then the Boss decided p’rhaps he could fix the electrickery. He cut the wire apart and stuck it togeva wiv tape, and then found the pump didn’t work cos of a pressure switch. Wot is that about? So then he took that apart an’ found it was full of nasty stuff. This involved some technical stuff involving taking things apart with loads of springs, washers, nuts and a diaphragm. We don’t know wot is a diaphragm. We had been sleeping indoors but at that point we had woked up and The Missus sent us outside to play. We wos playing wiv our toys wen suddenly Luna fort she could help the Boss wiv wot he was doing. She rushed in an took hold of a big spring thing, that she knew could be great fun. The Boss then shouted “get it back” at the Missus, who had no idea wot he was talking about. You should have seen it the Boss wiv screwdiriver in hand and the Missus wiv a cuppa in her hand chasing round the garden after Luna wiv a spring in her mouf. It was so comical. But Luna wos pleased wiv her new toy and knew The Boss didn’t really need it, although he had told the Missus “if you don’t get it, there will be no water”. In the end Luna decided they seemed so worried ’bout it she would give it to the Boss, who then ordered that we should go back indoors wen we had only just come out.

Minutes later The Boss came indoors an sed “it works better than it has for years now I’ve cleaned it out and fixed the pressure switch”. The Missus put on the tap in the kitchen an’ brown stuff came out of it. She wos not amuzed, but The Boss sez let it run, and then she wos able to give us sum water in our bowl agen. About an hour later the propa water came back on an The Missus wos happy so she could flush the loos an fill her bucket up agen. But then the water went off agen. She wos not happy about that but got the Boss to show her how to turn all the taps on to make the water come out of the tank so she knows for future purposes. So we spent anuvva night wivout propa water.

In the morning wen she woke up the propa water was back on agen an the missus put our blankets in the washety-sheen an she wos happy. She sez although she wos fed up wiv not having eny water she fort she wos lucky that the nice peeps who work for the water company came out an’ fixed it wen they could have stayed at home so they wouldn’t catch the virus. Luna is happy as she likes to dig in the outside water bowl an splash it everywhere. But there is one fing we don’t get, the next day water came out of the sky an’ made us all wet. What is that about?

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