Another thing...

... that I would be happy to live without is the poor plumming. We were convinced we had sorted it out, but no. The kitchen sink is connected to both the bathroom sink and the washing machine: i.e. food in one of them, and you have food in the other two as well. Often when you go into the bathroom it now looks as if one of us is bulimic - old food everywhere in the sink. Yuk! And before we can do any laundry we now have to run a simple spin and rinse cycle in the machine, to get rid of left overs... (I have not yet had the courage to tell Tim I've found pieces of leek in his clean underwear...) Something clearly has to be done!