I have seen adverts for sort of plastic socks that you can secure around wooden posts at the point where the surface of the wood air and earth all join. Cos as you say this is where they give up the ghost.
So would we, but I did it so that the water could drain away round the side to a lower part of the property. Here's some drain pipes going in the following spring:If this was done to our dottir's place she'd have a moat around it!
She lives in a place that has NO lower levels!!!
Yes & No.The weather is brightenig up from the west - well that's what 'they' say, time will reveal all.
Have I missed the recent kitties progress? I hope they are all learning to live together more amicabably.
There must be some lower ground somewhere. She's not at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, surely.
and not patched and repaired with cement normally lime wash with some eggsHere in Dorset and in Hants a lot of people have "cob cottages" but so many do not realise that they have to be painted with paint that allows the "cob" to breathe!.
You have got to get it to run away or you will have big problems later on especially the way the weather is more extreme these days
No, it is not 100s of metres below the sea.
Well I don't have to as it isn't my place, but in wet weather it is pretty flipping hard to see where it could run to.
I'm putting off starting work this evening, and as I'm a nerdy geeky person I looked for nearby weather station data. The nearest that goes as far as the 2020s on the KNMI Climate Explorer is Boscombe Down:Well I don't have to as it isn't my place, but in wet weather it is pretty flipping hard to see where it could run to.
I agree with you that more "modern " weather certainly doesn't help.
I guess the moral of the story is "Don't go to look at chocolate-box-top, thatched cottages, in nice weather, on a summer's day!".
It almost needs to be built in a bund with a pump all ready to go when necessary!
Has the youngster been castrated? I think that should lessen his dominance streak, eventually - I think.
......... and for the ignorant, what's that?
He's been nobbled. But he is a nasty little git.
You've probably seen it as it's had a lot of publicity. It used a variety of proxies to show, apparently, that the climate had been pretty steady for millennia (the 'handle' of the stick) and from around the year 2000 onwards there would be a rapid ascent of temperature (and by implication other climatological indicators) largely as a result of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions (in other words, the upturned 'blade' of the stick). This is not without criticism, in particular concerns about the highly selective use of indices and the 'flattening' of well documented fluctuations in the past such as the little ice age, the mediaeval warm period, the Roman warm period, the Minoan warm period, and further back, the holocene transgression and so on. Interestingly, Mann himself has backed off somewhat from the hockey stick graph, and even says it wasn't really his idea.......... and for the ignorant, what's that?
"Dive dive dive" would be appropriate. When they came home one day, before all this, they found they had a flood in this room and the kitchen. It had been raining very hard and for a long time. They discovered that the floor was fitted with tiles which had each had a hole drilled in them!!! So the water came through it but then in a short space of time disappeared back through them. I'd love to have seen these tiles and photographed them. Only found this out last night as well! It is mad that the water table is so high. TBH it needs digging right out, (in the summer), the walls underpinning, as there are no foundations, then decent tanking put in place. Totally bonkers.
Paint wiv holes innit?Here in Dorset and in Hants a lot of people have "cob cottages" but so many do not realise that they have to be painted with paint that allows the "cob" to breathe!.
She got half a mill in the settlement, that ought to have bought a decent house. I don't know how much dosh, if any they had left over after the intial purchase but, even with her partne/new husband pitching in I think they might be about feeling the pinch!!Thats mental whay dont they just dig it out & have a nice pool
