Screw Top Wine Bottles

 

Well. Ya see. It’s like this.

 Screw top wine bottles are not always that handy.
The dish washer broke a few weeks ago. The master control board did a very good impersonation of “Voyage to the Bottom of the sea”, for those of you who remember the programme.
It went bang and sent sparklers all over the place. With us swaying from side to side as the kitchen floor pitched wildly left to right.

Let’s just say “it don’t werk nah mowah”.

Now.

The Mem Sahib ordered another one from the online-interweb-a-ma-bob-a-thing.

“It’s OK” she said. “They take the old one away”.
“Perfik” I thought.

Now here is the ‘Big but’ and I don’t mean the lady in the film I watched late last night.

It would seem I need to uninstall the old one and install the new one.
“Ahh”, I hear you say, “where does the screw top wine bottle come in?”

I’m getting to it!

So Master Cameron and I set about uninstalling the old beast.
A tricky blighter, the dish washer, not Cameron. Built in and not wishing to come out.
So, Cam got my tools from the workshop. Not my Wendy House as The Mem Sahib calls it.
Yes I keep my toys in it. But it’s a workshop. OK.

So we set about it again. Gave it a good thrashing and undid the drain hose.
Now this is connected to the ‘u-bend’ on the sink. So now water would pour all over the place if we used the sink.
I looked everywhere to find something to cork the hole.
Did I say “cork”? I went all over the place trying to find a cork.

In the end, I had to open my last bottle of red, with a cork, just to plug a hole with said cork, so I could use the sink, to wash the floor, where we made a mess.
Now I need to drink the whole bottle, coz I don’t have any recipes for left over wine, whatever that is.

So. Always, always keep a bottle of red wine, with a cork in it handy.

You never know when you may need to block up a hole.