Well, Moonbase has become a leaky ship this week.
The washing machine packed up. We have a burst pipe below the bath and a dripping radiator, leading to a dodgy boiler.
Super Mario is coming round tomorrow to assess the leaks and tell is what the damage is!
In a further twist, I only this week found out that in the Southern hemisphere water flows down the plug-hole in the opposite way to us here in the North. How weird is that!
I hope Super Mario knows which way it flows on a Moonbase.
Do you?
Our medicine cupboard was full of strange potions and elixirs when I was a knee-scuffed lad. Here are a few of the concoctions I recall.
Milk of Magnesia: this wasn't milk at all but it was at least white and came in a blue bottle. Not for your corn flakes.
Germolene: pink hard creme in a flat blue tin. Windowlene for germs.
Savlon: toothpaste for cuts. Not sure it was a good idea.
TCP: hospital smell in a bottle. What sickly kids niffed of at school. Strangely compelling, a smell to be followed.
Dettol: similar to TCP but brown. It could kill almost anything yukky.
Domestos: could kill anything, even Dettol. Reeked of ammonia.
Calamine Lotion: pink pina colada for itchy ikky bodies. Came in large demi-johns.
Andrews: fizzy drink powder for Mums and Dads after a sesh the night before.
Can you remember anything else?
