Splash

Having researched a bit on the web was not much the wiser about the problems in the bath plumbing. Looks like the thermostat is dead, the vital bi-metal part having retired after 21 years. However, one tip suggested boiling the part and giving it a shock descaling treatment. Did both and was full of hope when it was all put back together again.

No change! Have to give up and order a replacement part - 200 Euros for a part inside a tap!

So spent much of the day indoors thankfully. It was simply unbearable outdoors and far too hot to take a swim until the evening. At sometime after 8:00 pm went for an inspection tour and saw that the tub below guttering on a shed was no longer full. This shed has the swimming pool heating pipes on it and there is almost always a small amount of leakage. For some reason, the bees have always made a bee-line to both the swimming pool but nowadays to this tub. Seems the chlorine must attract them.

However bees are very bad swimmers, well not actually bad - they are outright non-swimmers. Once in the water that's it. Have tried all sorts of things like putting bits of wood or leaves on the surface, nothing helps. Now with the evaporation and my repair work on Wednesday, there is less water and matters now out of hand with loads of bees drowning.

Risking life & limb, knocked over the barrel with my foot and ended the massacre. Blip taken just before.