{"id":142822,"date":"2024-02-28T22:21:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/naked-smelly-and-bleeding-all-i-wanted-was-hot-water-but-the-shower-had-other-ideas-adrian-chiles\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T22:34:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T15:34:15","slug":"naked-smelly-and-bleeding-all-i-wanted-was-hot-water-but-the-shower-had-other-ideas-adrian-chiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/naked-smelly-and-bleeding-all-i-wanted-was-hot-water-but-the-shower-had-other-ideas-adrian-chiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Naked, smelly and bleeding, all I wanted was hot water. But the shower had other ideas | Adrian Chiles"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe only good thing about that terrible day when the boiler broke down? It put the rest of my troubles into perspectiveIn times of stress, I attack the garden. And the garden retaliates. After a long day\u2019s toil, working up quite a sweat despite the cold, I was a mess. There was dirt in places dirt had no right to be, and flecks of blood on my arms and face where the brambles had bitten back.I put my clothes straight into the washing machine. There could be no time for them in the limbo of the dirty basket. Things had gone too far for that. Nor could there be any delay on my getting in the shower, no stopping for a drink or a snack. I was shrouded in a cloud of bad odour, like Pig-Pen in the Peanuts cartoon. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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