Having observed how drops of water falling one by one on a stone gradually created a hollow, he applied the method to the human body. Hippolytus de Marsiliis is credited with the invention of a form of water torture. Wikipedia speculates thus about the origin of the idiom: ‘The term “Chinese water torture” may have arisen from Chinese Water Torture Cell (a feat of escapology introduced in Berlin at Circus Busch Septemthe escape entailed Harry Houdini being bound and suspended upside-down in a locked glass and steel cabinet full to overflowing with water, from which he escaped), together with the Fu Manchu stories of Sax Rohmer that were popular in the 1930s (in which Fu Manchu subjected his victims to various ingenious tortures, such as the wired jacket). It is a bit like Chinese water torture as I type – not on my forehead, but certainly in my ears. The first picture presents a reflection of the table covered by an old dressing gown and containing a bowl the second has a container placed at the next likely site the mop and an old towel catch what bounces off the plastic container on the windowsill. Today we have experienced the latter phenomenon, with heavy rain. Sometimes beneath very heavy rain the table remains dry sometimes less rain slips in and plops into various collection pots.

There is no connection between the amount of rain and the leaks. Christmas cards were completed today Christmas shopping was continued the tree was placed in situ, and a few lights draped on it and around the walls.

Houdini chinese water torture cell