Day 220 - The perils of nature

While working on the bay window roof and sorting out the guttering and drainage (which had always been terrible) the builder's discovered the downpipe was clogged with a mass of ivy roots.



The odd thing is we don't have any ivy in the front garden and haven't since I've owned the house (14 years!). There is a tiny piece in the bed under the kitchen window (where the drainpipe is) so we can only assume there used to be much more and it grew into the pipe then when the ivy was removed the mass in the pipe died off but didn't rot or break down.