Despite efforts not to be superstitious, I am much obsessed by the idea of disaster seepage. That is to say, when one thing goes wrong, a hundred others usually follow.
So it was that a leaking roof segued seamlessly last week into blocked drains, a broken catflap and a stolen mobile phone.
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