The water technician is still here, except he isn’t, he’s gone to Girona for yet another part and the cash clock continues to tick merrily away. All fixed up at the pump house, well pump fixed, electrics replaced, fancy new pumping control system with anto-explosion mechanism fitted. Down at the house, accumulator functioning, boiler re pressurised. Yet STILL crap pressure in the shower. It was never great, but now it’s a miserly trickle.
Turns out the other pump, which we assumed pumped water from the storage tank down to the house, actually only supplies the garden irrigation taps. The house relies solely on gravity feed. How bonkers is that? Still, does not explain how we still had better pressure before than we do now.
It’s driving me nuts. I‘m trapped in the house awaiting his return, with two dogs mithering because they didn’t get their walk, oh and with no water, again.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
I didn't win the £170,000,000. 😕 I suppose it would've helped if I'd bought a ticket😐 I bet they'll say that it won't change their life. So why buy a ******* ticket then?
Hurrah, our Wallace and Gromit-style water supply contraptions are now fixed - with house pressure better than before! Having asked trepidatiously roughly what we were talking, turns out the bill will be about two thirds of what I thought. Felt like hugging him, but not sure man hugs are acceptable social conduct here. Catalans are much shyer than the southerners. Me and the dogs are going for celebratory walkies...
Sorry, very uncurmudgeonly.
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Free for them maybe, not free for tax payers money that had to pay it. Thomas Cook paid themselves plenty of bonuses and were laughing all the way to the bank.
No tax payer money was used. Entirely funded by the ATOL levy.
But isn't the ATOL levy a tax on air travel? It also only covers the people who bought a package holiday.
No, it's more like a mandatory insurance policy, and I suspect those repatriated through it are very happy it's there.
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It’s driving me nuts. I‘m trapped in the house awaiting his return, with two dogs mithering because they didn’t get their walk, oh and with no water, again.
I suppose it would've helped if I'd bought a ticket😐
I bet they'll say that it won't change their life. So why buy a ******* ticket then?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.