i'm just kicking myself because I had to dump the water from my 1000L water tank over the winter when the support needed repair and I hadn't managed to get it hooked back up before the dry spell started.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Never believe council web sites that say roadworks will be for 1 week. We were late collecting one G'daughter from school last Thurs and today we could have used a different road to get past the bottleneck. Not being 'app' people we assumed they'd be finished but of course NO and there's a bigger hole in the road now.
The big lumpy clouds delivered and we had enough rain to fill the butts about a third full. The air plants have had a soak in nice nitrate-fixed thunder water and will no doubt continue to look exactly the same afterwards.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I thought I'd take my cup of tea outside, in a shady spot, after I'd had my post walk shower and done a couple of things, and before it got too hot for me. When I went out initially to pour the shower water on a shrub, I could a car engine running, and it was parked up outside my fence at the end of the garden. Did the watering, went inside, got my tea, went out, drank it. Engine still running. Did a couple of things. Engine still running. P*ssed off, so went outside to see who it was. A young woman sitting in the car, on her phone. I gestured [not that kind, although I felt like it] to her to turn it off. She eventually realised what I meant and did turn it off. When she eventually drove away, she'd been there at least twenty minutes, so would presumably have sat there the entire time with that engine going. WTF is wrong with these folk? Of course, no sooner had I gone back out to sit for a short while and enjoy the peace, than a tree feller started shredding conifers from a garden further along, so that was that! You can't win. They're still going, over an hour and a half on....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
She probably had the engine on to keep the air conditioning running @Fairygirl! Could have been worse - if she'd opened the window you would have heard her mindless telephone conversation!
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Of course, no sooner had I gone back out to sit for a short while and enjoy the peace, than a tree feller started shredding conifers from a garden further along, so that was that! You can't win.
They're still going, over an hour and a half on....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...