Clare O'Mara

No, I had to go and collect the kids shortly after 12 o'clock when we all received the email from the school.

And yesterday we received an email late yesterday evening to say that there were ongoing works from 5pm until midnight and that they wouldn't know if the school would reopen this morning, but they would email everybody at 7am this morning, which they did do.

In fairness, 5 to 7, the email came through to say that the school was open, but they lasted three hours and had to send the children home again.

These are unscheduled works.

This is a very regular thing.

I have counted now the last couple of months, every third Sunday at minimum, we run out of water.

And as you can imagine, Sunday evenings are shower and bath nights for the children.

Well, going back to weekly wash, it was Saturday night now.

That was Saturday night bath time.

And that was when three of us or four of us were shoved in a bath.

And it's a little bit different now.

But we're going to have to start resorting back to that again.

I don't know how many dishwashers, kettles that I've had to replace, washing machines.

The water is very, very bad here.

The lime scale is absolutely destroying them.

My warranties won't even cover it now.

They ask me what area I'm in and I say, I give them my air code and say, oh yeah, that's very bad for lime scale.

No, that's lime scale problem.

We're not covered to replace that.

So, you know, effective is costing everybody.