Soaked

What is it about the "simple" tasks that somehow turns them into epics.

The water filter on the fridge needed changing. New filters were acquired from the nice man at Amazon and the Gorse Fox decided that he would swap the filter this morning. He remembered from past experience that there is a knack to uncoupling and coupling the hoses to the inlet and outlet ports. He used this experience to ensure everything was done quickly and smoothly.

Voila. Done.

He turned the water back on. It spayed everywhere. Water off. Coupling retried. Water on. Spray. Coupling retried. Water on. Spray... and repeat.

Eventually he decided to nip off the last two millimetres of the inlet pipe as it had a slight limescale mark. Recoupled. Water on. Momentary success... then it sprayed from the outlet pipe - all over the Gorse Fox.

Dripping, he repeated the nip and couple technique. All is now well other than the Gorse Fox sitting here in wet chinos and polo shirt.