Mrs Drinkall from No 21 has just popped round to inform me that she has contracted with Potts Roofing and Property Repairs to renew the guttering at the back of her house and wanted to check if it is OK to join her new guttering onto mine. I wasn't falling for any of that brazen lewdness and was politely affirmative but firm. She might have not appreciated how firm I actually was, but that's another matter.

Looking back, I think this would have made a splendid new thread called "Mrs Drinkall from no 21's new guttering". I should have ended it with a question about other Mudcatter's experiences of new guttering on non-detached properties.

Another missed opportunity to enliven a slightly slow day in South Ferriby Sluice.