It seems PowerBlog doesn’t work with blogger quite the way I had hoped. The date and category features do not seem to work the way one hopes, I probably need to read the manual.
Anyway, its a lovely day outside the train, quite at odds with the stormy rain clouds I left behind this morning. These same rain clouds left a puddle in my kitchen and my gutters overflowing.
Unfortunately, it seems the guys that put the extension on our house under the direction of prior owners did not ’scale’ our guttering, and thus everytime it rains, it over flows. Throw in blockages from the neighbours tree and the gutter starts poring minutes after the deluge starts.
Additionally, the water doesn’t cleanly overflow, rather it overflows into the eaves of the house - this is not a good thing.
So tonight, I’m endeavouring to fix it in the 2 hours of daylight I have available to me, the first thing I’m going to do is re-route the old drain pipe to not use the new section of guttering and to simply discharge onto the ground. It does it anyway when the rain falls, so why not just do it straight away without the detour through the house 
That all said, I’m still not convinced that the new section drains correctly, it seems to me that its still blocked within the down pipe, the amount of water that flows out of the downpipe seems to not match its capacity at the top, so something is just not right.
Anyway, I’m sure this is all very confusing, and not particularly interesting, a photo would help, but I’m afraid I’m not taking my digital SLR onto the roof for the purpose of this blog!