Quick rant

Well now all my garden is planted, I've been checking it at night and in the morning to ensure it's getting fed properly, etc. My big beef right now however is with my landlord, and apparently his lack of plumbing knowledge.

We have a few side taps, two at the back of the house (on both sides) and one in the front. My patch of land is at the back, and I used the one functioning back tap all last season, and even earlier this year when prepping the garden (as well as cleaning down baby toys/stuff). Now, the basement apartment apparently had a leak go on in their place, so immediately the landlord expects it's from our apartment (we're above them), yet we've no floods or anything - so they (I guess with some reason) assumed it was the side tap.

Now, this is fine and acceptable, but I checked the tap last night and despite the plastic bag wrapped around it, the pipe is still 'live' - they've not cut off the feed, which makes me wonder: Surely water under pressure would still leak from a pipe regardless of whether the end point of the pipe was sealed or not (or, in this case, the tap was open or closed) - so I've got to call them today and ask what the hell.. I spoke to him Sunday and he said he'd get it done by Monday, which of course didn't appear to happen (I wasn't around enough to keep on at him).

I don't care which tap, I just need to water the damn garden. And if he expects me to use the tap at the front of the house, he can damn well pay for a longer hose too.

Gah..