#My ever optimistic mother suggested maybe they just put some charcoal into the water system today

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The last couple days we've stayed in this historical manor house which is beautiful but it has quirks like the toilets will only flush successfully every sixty minutes or like this afternoon when the taps started including flakes of grainy black skudge with their water and I'm just going to bed tacky with old sweat and sunscreen because at least i can be sure that won't give me weird old house diseases.