Messin' About

What a start to the day!  F left the door open while she was preparing her bike so I sauntered off down the stairs.

The next thing F heard was the neighbour talking to a cat (humans use silly voices to talk to cats) and trying to put it outdoors.  Yes, that was me.  She came racing downstairs and saved me, and got a shock when she picked me up to discover that my feet were wet 'to the elbows'.  Well I was trying to explain to them both that they needed to go to the basement - 'there's a lake down there!'

All that heavy rain has flooded the basement.  We have a storage room down there - that's why I go down to check on it from time to time.  I don't know what they are going to do about the water.  When F turned on the light to try and determine how I got wet feet she revealed that the water is already turning a bright, anti-freeze bright, shade of green.

Hmmmm!

Later in the day a crane barge went past with plenty of escorts.  On the best zoom her phone is capable of it looked like this:


Next thing I see her with the thing Mr B puts in front of his face when he is looking at the sea balanced on the balcony railing, and trying to line that up with the camera spot on her phone; which resulted in a picture that looked like this:



and this....



and so on.

She tried to convince me it's art.  I call it messin' about, or just  'A MESS'.




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  1. Not a mess at all - quite a cool idea. Wonder what the crane is doing?

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    1. F says thank you. Crane was being towed right to left, so we assume going to one of the marinas or coastal defence works or something in the Athens Southern suburbs.

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  2. Hari OM
    I am thinking the basement will be the messy bit - nothing messy about F's inventive zoom lens!!! Hope the first doesn't cause too much problem and would advise F that it's possible to buy dedicated phone zooms... hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx

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    1. Wet basement is a building design fault - there is a sump pump down there but it has clearly given up very recently (within the last two weeks since we were there last). The mouldy smell of the place tells you it has a water ingress problem - related to rainfall events. I will tell her to look at phone zoom lens but suspect as attitudes go its a gadget that will appeal to Mr B. He is 'gadget man' supremo.

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  3. Quite a neat ingenious idea actually - zoom into the zoom.

    How very courageous of you to step into the deep water…..bet there was a lot of feet/leg shaking going on as each foot got wet. Pity you couldn’t find the stop cock while you were down there

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    1. F suspects I didn't see the water in the dark. Of course I saw it, I just failed to appreciate how deep it was. You might have been right about the foot shaking....I admit to nothing. xxx mr T

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  4. Oh and tell F I’m feeling a lot better now. Coming up to the shortest day - once that’s been and gone I’ll start to buck up again. We can’t do much about that thing doing the rounds ‘cept be sensible and follow the rules. Selfishly I’m a bit crook because Qld still wont let us in and I really really don’t want to miss out on my winter trip this year 😊

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    1. Nothing selfish about wanting a holiday, we do too. I want to go somewhere that has grass.... xxx Mr T

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  5. miaow tigger. you'll never soak all the water up with just your fur. it takes ages to dry out. phoebe.

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    1. No kidding Phoebe. I miscalculated how deep water could be inside a human building. I figured on it just being a wet floor. Oops! We saw two cats roll through a puddle today while trying to tear each other apart. Even that didn't put a damper on their conflict.

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  6. I think that's a good closeup shot but I hope the flood didn't damage anything.

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    1. The floor of our storage unit is a step above lake level, but no doubt it will SMELL damp even if it didn't get flooded.

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  7. it is messin about and I too love to mess about, i did this once years ago. so glad you did not breakout into the wilds of the yard and that you caused F to find the flood in the basement. sorry about that. forgot to say love the messin photos view through the telescope. it is Art Tigger, because I say so.

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