Posted by Jock on June 12, 2006 at 10:12:37 from 86.135.21.80 user Jock.
While Beckfoot's plumbing is a mundane subject for some, others find English plumbing a hot topic. Here is an extract from Garrison Keillor's travel blog decribing a trip to England.
Came back upstairs and took a shower which is a confusing experience here. One should not be irked by such a small thing, one should focus on larger spiritual things, but English plumbing is in its early experimental stage, I believe. Lots of pipes and tubes and faucets and gizmos, but you get the water going out of the shower head and the temperature keeps changing. And tiny adjustments of the faucets produce vast temperature swings. You crank the cold faucet down 1/360th of a full turn and the water goes from arctic to volcanic.
See the earlier entry for March 7 for the full article.