Kitchen Garden Forum

Nature's Babe wrote::idea: Could we run a pipe PJ and i could empty my water butts for you ? Or the next big cloud that appears I could huff and puff it over in your direction?

It's amazing how different it is, considering you are only about 20-30 minutes away from me

True PJ, until quite recently i was in the same position as you, with rain skirting around us and missing us every time!

alan refail wrote:I hear that Boris wants all the water from Wales and Scotland

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-13765279

I have e-mailed Mayor Boris suggesting that if we can send him something London's short of (water), can he sent us something Wales is short of (money).

So far I have not had a reply

...oh yes, and it's raining here again today, with plenty more in prospect, but we can't send London any of the water as all our rivers in west Wales flow into the Irish sea and not downhill to London. And I don't suppose Dublin is short on the wet stuff!

alan refail wrote:......but we can't send London any of the water as all our rivers in west Wales flow into the Irish sea and not downhill to London. And I don't suppose Dublin is short on the wet stuff!

Don't we already send it to Liverpool and Birmingham from Clwedog and Vyrnwy?

London could have some if it would stop the Severn/Vyrnwy flooding here!

Diane

DiG wrote:Don't we already send it to Liverpool and Birmingham from Clwedog and Vyrnwy?

And to Liverpool from Tryweryn and the drowned community of Capel Celyn.

Out & bought the sand, gravel & cement, dumped it at my plot.
Changed into boots and took self, dog & tools to plot.
Dug out a base with a deeper bit in each corner.
Cut up some reinforcing mesh too small for climbing plants that I had lying around.
Put a form round the hole, set the two U shaped rebars across opposite sides.

Rain started.

Put the section of rebar mesh in on top of some broken brick.
Mixed and laid concrete to fill 31" square 5" deep.
Laid four breeze blocks to make a theree sided support.
Smoothed it all out and used the knackered plywood mixing base with breezes blocks to shelter without touching.

Hopefully on Sunday I can get my 31" cubed former parrafin tank, Edwardian - heavily galvanised - brass tap, up on there and be able to collect a decent bit of rain off the shed and right at the highest point of my plots.

By now rather soggy packed up, took the dog home and returned with clean hands and tupperware to pick raspberries.

This made me completely soggy.

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And to Liverpool from Tryweryn and the drowned community of Capel Celyn.[/quote]

Sorry, Alan.... how could I forget that one!

DiG wrote:Sorry, Alan.... how could I forget that one!

Indeed!

Thanks to NB with her huffing and puffing at the clouds, we have had rain here since about 9 am this morning.

Doesn't look as though it is stopping any time soon

Still raining here too, with more forecast. The rain dance and huffing and puffing worked well, now if I put the umbrella away and get my polka dot bikini out will the sun come back again ?

Blooming eck.

Did u get all hot under the collar? I just took it out the drawer OH .... not sure it still fits. Waving a yellow polka dot bikini at the clouds... giggles

Ever so slightly Nature's Babe.

And whats more, the sun has just burst through.

It's raining here....has been for a few hours now....

Perhaps I should try the bikini trick as well