Serendipity

Serendipity - there is a word you don't hear very often anymore. It's a lovely sounding word, and it tends to describe a positive sort of event. I'm not sure why words fall out of use. I'll have to look into that further.

But right now I wanted to share a particularly serendipitous experience we had at the library. As you may know, we have been working on the bathrooms in the Children's Room and in the process, needed to change the toilet drains from a wall mount to a floor mount (I know TMI). That required some significant repiping - and here was our serendipitous moment. In the process of reconfiguration, the plumbers discovered a small leak. Yes there was some less that appealing clean-up work to be done, but I believe this was a serendipitous moment of the first order. The thought of what might have been the result if the leak went on undetected . . .

So in the process of making some much needed upgrades in the bathrooms, we were able to prevent a truly awful, if not offal, disaster!

So that all has slowed down the finishing touches in the bathrooms, but they should be ready by the end of next week. I will be interested to hear what you think of the changes.