Great way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

[Sider]

Clearing a blockage in your house's drains, with a fall down a manhole included. Thank god it was after we cleared it, or SWMBO would have had me sleep in the van :D

See if you can improve on this :D

[Bush Tucker Man]

On a related topic, a couple of years ago (at our previous house) the washing machine stopped working; it wasn't pumping clear.
The washing machince was in the oldouthouse (outside loo)
So on inspection after removing a flag-stone & digging down to the drainpipe that we shared with the neighbour, I found that it had somehow split & stank like something had crawled inside & died.
Surprisingly it was the original (very late) Victorian pot pipe.

So there I was with a trowel & hands at one point) removing the contents that had accumulated from our washing-machine, kitchen-sink, dishwasher & next doors bathroom.
When I came across a very dead & even more bloated Rat that must have crawled along the slight incline from the branch sewer
No wonder it stank    

And to add injury to insult, I sliced my hand on the broken pipe & had to attend my own A&E for a Tetanus & x-ray to make sure I hadn't got any pipe fragments in the cuts :oops:

Oh, the stick I got over that :oops:  :oops:  

[suzota]

you wait till you have to rod out a full and backed up manhole from a school toilet.

[Bush Tucker Man]

you wait till you have to rod out a full and backed up manhole from a school toilet.

Happens in A&E at least once a week, usually on Saturday & Sunday mornings after the last of the drunks have gone home.
One manhole cover by the ambulance entrance is 5foot above the actual channel level & I've seen it to within a few inches of the top when the plumbers have lifted the lid.
I've seen some of the Nurses face premature deliveries in the department, facial burns, traumatic amputations, RTA injuries & infant deaths, but they all run away from a perfectly natural smell :roll:  :roll:  :roll:  :roll: