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<p class="entry-content"><p>My bladder's ok so far, but I am experiencing three kinds of leaks:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Electric</strong> - following a thunderstorm the tripswitch was tripping out for no apparent reason. After I'd ruled out any fried bit of equipment in the house, I called in the electrician. 10 amps were leaking to ground. He was able to narrow it down to the bathroom/stairs area (now isolated), and he's coming back tomorrow. I don't really get why the storm should have made a difference (burning insulation on dodgy old wires?) but the trip has been sensitive for a long time, it's quite possible I've being paying for some part of 2.2kW to heat up a wall.</li> <li><strong>Water</strong> - the supply stopped the day before yesterday, although we didn't notice until yesterday because I've got a couple of water tanks before a pump, because the pressure has always been very low. Coincidently the neighbour's been digging up the road outside for water supply to his new barn conversion - at first it seemed like that was the obvious cause, but then he noticed that my water meter was spinning merrily even without any taps being on. Plumber's coming out this afternoon. It's quite possible I've been paying for part of the water supply to wet the ground under the house for a while - years even.</li> <li><strong>Markup</strong> - the content sanitization on this blog isn't working correctly (on post it should be going through Tidy to make it XML), there are undeclared character entities slipping through which is tripping up XML handling in Scala when rendering. I've slipped in a nasty replace() workaround for now, I think tweaking Tidy settings should make a proper fix. At least this leak isn't as costly as the other two.</li> </ul></p>
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