Hot-tears come splashin on down.

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• The regular London Fetish Fair is moving from Shillibeer's and so won't be on in October. The new location is N1 0AU, conveniently placed nowhere in particular (about ten minutes' walk from Kings Cross or Caledonian Road; if only York Road were reopened yet).

The house is resisting the DIY. I approached the bathroom with a fully-charged drill, a masonry bit and a look of grim, steely, manly determination last night and tried making holes in the bathroom wall for the shower fitting. (The sort that you stick over the taps; this is for the rail to stick the showerhead on.) I even tried drilling through the grouting, not the tiles themselves. Three minutes of furious grinding noises (fnarr) to no effect other than a silvery blemish in the grouting.

Guess what? The "grouting" appears to be the glue holding the tiles on. The wall has a sheet of metal behind it. So does the other wall over the bathtub.

My questions are: 1. Ideas on how to attach the shower fitting? Bonus points for removability at end of tenancy. 2. WHY???