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Last Monday, having started to settle for the night, I wasn’t able to get off to sleep in my usual head down and mental lights out fashion. Why? Because I was hearing a persistent drip, drip. Must have left a tap running I thought as I grudgingly got out of bed. No, there was water coming through the ceiling from the apartment above mine.

No problem, I thought. It’s just the odd drip now and then. I got out a bucket to collect the water and went back to bed. After a while I was able to ‘not hear’ the drips and drifted off to sleep.

What seemed like seconds later, but was actually in the early hours of the morning I was woken by what sounded like my shower running. Now the drips were a torrent and I had to do something about it. To cut a long story short, I woke my neighbour – grumble, grumble and as a precautionary measure we turned the water off.