The legacy of 'Shithouse' plumbing.

So... the night before last, as we settled into bed, I thought I heard the toilet upstairs running....it does it it sometimes when the flush mechanism sticks. Will went up to check it but it was fine and yet weirdly when he came down he could still hear water flowing in the pipes. Was it a leak?He meant to check the water meter yesterday...to see if it was moving when we had all the taps turned off...but we forgot.We all went down the garden today....to see the 'little fish' in the old bath pond.Dulcie is very concerned about them having seen big black crows down there and peewees and ibis's.We originally bought 6 but they have bred and there are countless minute fish swimming around now.We pointed some out to Dulcie....'Good God!" was her reply.Heading back inside we looked in at the fernery and that is when Will discovered standing water against the wall. He dug down and almost created another pond....he scooped water out of the hole but as soon as he did it it filled up again....it was not good!We eventually thought we could see it coming out of the wall where our shower room is downstairs....and feared the leak might be under the concrete....but did not let on to Dulcie.Will turned off the water and phoned the plumber.Two arrived just before it was time for our 'respite'. They looked about 15. I felt old. I was pretty convinced they would just make mud pies in the wet earth in the fernery but....no, they actually new something about pipes!They discovered that the leak was outside the wall, much to our relief, and headed off for the parts.We spent our respite say under the house waiting for it all to be sorted. We left Blue Care upstairs chuckling away with Dulcie.(I said to her later, "She sounded very happy!" Dulcie replied, "She needs to grow up! Big kid!")We paid the 15 year olds a very grown up $311.30 for their work and off they went ....back to school I imagine.We were just relieved that:a) we discovered the leak.....(Heck! With all the World leaders coming it would not have looked good if Brisbane ran out of water because of us!)b) it was not as bad as we had thought.The legacy of 'Shithouse' plumbing still comes back to haunt us!