{"id":11737,"date":"2016-09-09T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=11737"},"modified":"2016-09-09T12:00:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T11:00:42","slug":"shock-horror-yuk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/shock-horror-yuk\/","title":{"rendered":"Shock, horror, yuk!"},"content":{"rendered":"

During yesterday evening, I began to notice that the water coming out of my cold tap seemed to be becoming more and more cloudy. It came to a head (no pun intended) when I flushed the loo and the water that flooded out was of quite a deep yellowish-brown hue.<\/p>\n

So then I went into the bathroom and started running the cold tap, which is connected directly to the mains, and pretty soon this is what I saw before me as the the water that came out went from clear and became darker and darker in colour!<\/p>\n

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That made me think of the cup of coffee that I’d made for myself not long before and sure enough, when I went and emptied the kettle out into the sink, the water that came out had a distinct yellowish tinge to it. That made me feel not a little queezy and I’m only glad that I’d boiled it before using it. The water that I’d used had come out of my Brita filter which I’d not looked at closely at the time as you don’t, do you. When I checked that, the water left in it also had a distinctly cloudy appearance.<\/p>\n

So at that point I emptied everything out that had had water in it and began thinking about what I was going to do about washing or showering, as there was no way that I wanted to come out looking like a fake suntan fail. I also wondered what I’d do in the morning as I fancied drinking the water even less than washing in it and at one time even thought about going outdoors in the dark and collecting the clean water that was stored in my hosepipe.<\/p>\n

But I then decided that I’d try letting the water run for a few minutes to see what happened. My fear was that something had gone wrong with my water supply, as had happened when my neighbour’s pipe had burst underground, and that I’d be left with a hefty repair bill. On the other hand, if the problem was, or had been, in the supply network, surely it would have been dealt with promptly and normal supply resumed.<\/p>\n

And that was indeed the case. After a few minutes, as the water ran it slowly reverted back to it normal appearance and I left it running for a little while longer to be sure. Then I rinsed my kettle and teapot out and also threw away the next run in my Brita filter jug. This isn’t a normal occurrence by any means, and I just hope that it doesn’t happen too often in the future!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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