After a hard day today and the missus gone to work this eve, cleared up the tea things and done the washing up only to find when took the plug out it was blocked

after some swearing and lots of plunging....nothing
started emptying under sink to take apart trap etc when had a brainwave

so fired up the trucky and sucked out the water from sink and drainer, shoved pipe over plughole and hey presto sink now clear and draining lovely

filter cleaned out of foody bits....job sorted!
maybe another string to our bows in the slow months :

stu