You see, midnightblue, some people don't know what it's like living in the back of beyond? There's a 17 acre field rising up behind our borehole and we always look with trepidation when the slurry spreader arrives, especially if it's wet weather. Power cut = no water = no flushing toilets = off to the water butts with buckets, but still alive after 13 years.
I am one of those peoples who have no clue; but the idea fascinates me so I do love hearing about it! As a born and bred Londoner I just cannot imagine people living this way in England. I know... very ignorant
For some reason I find these conversations magical! Please never stop posting midnight blue and nick
I am one of those peoples who have no clue; but the idea fascinates me so I do love hearing about it! As a born and bred Londoner I just cannot imagine people living this way in England. I know... very ignorant
For some reason I find these conversations magical! Please never stop posting midnight blue and nick
Oh no not in the least ignorant! You've had different experiences that's all, my grandmother lived in a house with no mains water and no electricity so it's a familiar thing to me. She had oil lamps and we had to pump the water up from a well in her garden - very occasionally that dried up then we collected water from a stream on the side of the lane outside her cottage. She always said if the frogs were happy in it then it's clean enough for us! Thank you for your kind comments too.
We’re all still alive, 😀 just the job on the compost heap.
The thing is I have lizards and slow worms living around and in my compost heaps - and something that buries stolen eggs in it too, I suspect the rather beautiful stoat - so although I understand urine has great properties I wouldn't want to scare away the beasties!
I am one of those peoples who have no clue; but the idea fascinates me so I do love hearing about it! As a born and bred Londoner I just cannot imagine people living this way in England. I know... very ignorant
For some reason I find these conversations magical! Please never stop posting midnight blue and nick
Oh no not in the least ignorant! You've had different experiences that's all, my grandmother lived in a house with no mains water and no electricity so it's a familiar thing to me. She had oil lamps and we had to pump the water up from a well in her garden - very occasionally that dried up then we collected water from a stream on the side of the lane outside her cottage. She always said if the frogs were happy in it then it's clean enough for us! Thank you for your kind comments too.
No no this is too much! Oil lamps and wells and streams... oh be still my beating heart!
It's quite common in Scotland to have no mains water, sewage, gas etc. Lots of places aren't hooked up to the usual supplies - too remote. My last house had a private water supply - a well and a spring.
Hope you've had some rainfall now for collection @midnightblue.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It's quite common in Scotland to have no mains water, sewage, gas etc. Lots of places aren't hooked up to the usual supplies - too remote. My last house had a private water supply - a well and a spring.
Hope you've had some rainfall now for collection @midnightblue.
Yes the rainfall today has helped but it will probably be a few months before the tank is full again - the cows and calves are drinking it too.
In NZ it's pretty common to just have rainwater collection tanks and no well/spring or mains water.
Here in Denmark I am on mains water, but if I look out of my window and up the hill I can see the building that houses the pump, it's a small village about 20 houses and the Danish water system is very decentralised, so our water comes from the hill above us as well. I have to say that the power stays on here a lot better than it does in the village I grew up in in deepest darkest Hampshire! I can remember 10 days with no power one week in the 80's (not 89)
If you're using washing up water just be a little bit carefull with the soap your using is all I would say. but any water is better than none.
We've been listening to thunder round us today, but no rain here, we've had 2mm in the last 3 weeks. sigh.
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For some reason I find these conversations magical! Please never stop posting midnight blue and nick
My last house had a private water supply - a well and a spring.
Hope you've had some rainfall now for collection @midnightblue.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...