Lateralism

A nice example of lateral thinking from BH the other day.

Our fairly new tap on our kitchen sink comes, I think, from Homebase. Far too modern to have a round and round action like taps of yore and which work by pressing a soft circular washer onto the rim of a circular metallic hole, and the handle of this tap only turns through a modest 90 degrees, although it does retain the convention of  clockwise off and anti-clockwise on.

Now this tap has been dripping for some time, to which my reaction was to turn it harder and harder clockwise, or to the left as I face it, more or less a waste of time as one is not pushing something soft onto something hard. However, BH exhibiting a striking bit of lateral thinking, discovered that if you turn the handle clockwise until it stops, then turn it slightly back the other way, the tap stops dripping.

She makes no claims for female brainpower, claiming only greater familiarity with and interest in taps - but I am not so sure. I had only got as far as thinking that it was time to test whether our fancy home tap cover from British Gas does what one thinks it says on the tin - something which some people of our acquaintance are not convinced about at all.