Do a search for Ha-ha and learn about another landscape feature.
WhiskyLassie
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I may do
Stone56
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No cattle on your lawn then
but dangerous if you have had to much beer ask Capability Brown
We have one of those on the Barrack Field
Need a seance for thatNo cattle on your lawn then
Stone56
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Capability Brown designed this feature to enable the landscape with cattle to be visible from your stately home without them mucking up your lawn but if ****ed you could fall over the edgeNeed a seance for that
Stone56
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We have also used a lot of H2O will need a delivery next week no rain worth talking about for another month it makes you realize how much you need even if you are economically with it
We have also used a lot of H2O will need a delivery next week no rain worth talking about for another month it makes you realize how much you need even if you are economically with it
We are now on a regime of (supposedly 1 day on 1 day off
) yes they turn it off at 8am then they may turn it on for the next due day but it takes all day to fill all the lines so its not till late afternoon we get pressure. We got pressure at 3pm yesterday (we heard the air being pushed at 11am), so I filled the sink and did some washing up while M had a shower, then I had 1 after I finished doing the manly washing up. It was a dribble again at 11pm when we went to bed, me thinks the guys that turn the valves don't have watches, or don't want to get up early .We don't waste water, don't have a garden to water or worry that the grass is crunchy yellow. We also spent a good few months (before we were mains connected) collecting water from a spring to fill loos and supply showers, so we understand how much is needed and also how easy it is wasted.
We have a huge choice as to dig a well, lots around here are drying as the water table lowers
. Or build a storage of water that if we know the water is off we have enough if we are good.Need to bend a few welding rods and go divining to see
.Whenever we dug an ole more than 2m +/- there was water from the ground, maybe I should go out and dig an ole
.But..... I only take the wash n go to the hot tub, then rinse in the pool,
When I stink to much
.J
Stone56
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If I was you I would install plastic under ground storage tanks fed from the mains so you can fill when no shortage and no need for fillers in the last 10yrs we have noticed that we are getting less rain fall and the need to buy in water the cost has increased a large amount so in general there is less water about getting to the point that it's cheaper to drink beer than water so some benefitsWe are now on a regime of (supposedly 1 day on 1 day off
We don't waste water, don't have a garden to water or worry that the grass is crunchy yellow. We also spent a good few months (before we were mains connected) collecting water from a spring to fill loos and supply showers, so we understand how much is needed and also how easy it is wasted.
We have a huge choice as to dig a well, lots around here are drying as the water table lowers
Need to bend a few welding rods and go divining to see
Whenever we dug an ole more than 2m +/- there was water from the ground, maybe I should go out and dig an ole
But..... I only take the wash n go to the hot tub, then rinse in the pool,
When I stink to much
J
less water about getting to the point that it's cheaper to drink beer than water so some benefits
I do try my best to help, and late at night replenish the ground
.We have a basement (the mains comes in there) but no door big enough to get an IBC in, Storing water and using water is an issue, I would rather use all the time so stored is not bad. I have a plan just need tanks I can get attachments in and seal to mains pressure.
Looking trust me
J
What you say makes perfect sense.
The only thing is that we live in a non-arable part of the country. The land round here is used for growing trees and sheep. So we never see signs of rats.
Mice and "mulots", yes, moles, badgers, wolves, deer and Loirs too.
But that has to be set against the fact that for 6 months of the year no liquid runs down the pipe in the section between the septic tank and the join with the roof run off overflow pipe which itself is dry in dry periods. which basically means "not unless we are here"!
This put me in mind of the Scots regiments in WW1 in the trenches. The Germans called them "the devils in skirts" bu it must have been awful for them.Is it a pvc kilt to keep the rain off it
Those kilts look amazingly clean! I think that shot was posed. The colour in the pics does not look like hand tinted.
There are lots of other black and white pics.
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All he needs is a gas cape!!
W and I years ago considered selling up and buying a country house, with extensive grounds, that was up for sale with the idea of converting it into a country house hotel like the one I worked in years ago.No cattle on your lawn then
A whole team of us went to look at it, family members including a builder, two landscape gardeners, an accountant, a personnel person and a person who had worked in such a hotel (moi!).
It was a lovely building we came across some interesting stuff such as a tree that should have been in a national collection, a huge lump of dry or wet rot, forget which, and a HaHa! There were some fantastic original Art Deco features, bathrooms etc.
But the house needed so much work.
I contacted the retired owners of the one I'd worked in who had then bought an even bigger place and converted that again into a successful place. They advised strongly against it. They had got out just before the financial situation changed, without financial loss. But at the time it would have been financial suicide.
Never did find out what happened to it. It was fantastically situated between Lymington and two other places in the New Forest area.
Very nice, good wide range. Am I correct that you have no aubergines, courgettes or gherkins?
We have so many cherry tomatoes that we are currently making them into tomato juice, soup and sauce!
We pickle the gherkins but don't do anything other than eat the courgettes and aubergines. We also have a big crop of runner beans, too many to eat so W will have to freeze them if she can find room in the freezer!
WhiskyLassie
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Love that, waiting on my beef steaks to turn.
Hippo
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Buy an endoscope to avva look down yer pipe if the blocked bit is only 2 meters down. It won't wurk in black water so let the water escape first.
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