Service by Phone
Mr Sweetie: "Hello?"
Me: "Hello, Sweetie! This is a phone call to the Hero of the Republic!"
Mr Sweetie: "Oh, look - it's really raining hard outside!"
Me: "Yeah! Actually, that's what I was phoning about! Could you get an umbrella, and bring it to our local bus stop? I'm on a bus from the station, you see..."
Mr Sweetie: "Yes, actually that ought to be possible. But we'll have to get back to the house soon as we can - I'm checking that roof for leaks."

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And, true to his word, Mr Sweetie was running up to the bus stop just as my bus had pulled in. The rain was still pelting down. But the glass skylight was showing no signs of the flooding that had visited us during the previous 10 liter/second downpours, so in all, we feel it's been a day of feeling relieved - the household analysis of the problem, that leaves had clogged the downspout to the point of letting the water back up and then over into the skylight, was both correct and pointed to a simple, cheap and effective fix. Namely, cleaning the entry to the downspout.

Extra points for my personal hero bringing the brolly, trotting up looking all breezy in a lime green polo shirt contrasting with a bright blue brolly. I was wearing a hand-woven poncho of burgundy and salmon. He handed me the blue brolly, then proceeded to pull out a smaller but bright red one for himself.

I hope we didn't give anyone shopping on the main street a headache from all that color clash.