As promised, I said I would keep you up to date with the failed sanitation problem at home. The Council Plumber did come out, but we didn’t get what we wanted. He was even clever enough to replace the broken part without having to remove it from the wall.
However, at 2pm, as the problem started again, the grooves that the flush handle sit on; wore away and so the flush handle falls into the cistern and you have to get up on the toilet pan to reset it every time. So this means that you can’t really flush the chain again, without causing serious problems to the toilet.
Also for Health and Safety reasons, we have had to remove the cast iron lid from the toilet. The reason behind this is, that when you pull the flush, the flush handle moves up, then it lifts the lid on the cistern, almost causing it to fall off on top of you. However, this problem happens before the flush handle falls into the cistern.
So Jackie will be off to the Council tommrow, to have yet another go at them. The cistern is damaged, so it is not easy to get the flush handle to stay on the spindle, it needs replacing, but try telling that to the Council! Will we ever get a new low level cistern? With the way the Council are acting, we doubt it, but one can only dream.
I’ll again, keep you posted on this one. I got to head over to Nan’s as I need to do my buisness and we cannot flush that kind of thing down our loo with a broken flush, so I’ll catch you all later! 
