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Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 5:11 pm
by Jude
purchased 1 water barrel - holds 190 litres ( wot's that in real money????)
I think you lot have gone to seed! After all, I did weed the front and have watered the garden, but obviously you lot got missed with the weed killer - oh rat's I forgot to get that.. ho hum..... never mind - I am chuffed at having a water barrel - yipee...
(small things - small minds,,,,etc....)
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 5:48 pm
by J.R.
Jude wrote:purchased 1 water barrel - holds 190 litres ( wot's that in real money????)
I think you lot have gone to seed! After all, I did weed the front and have watered the garden, but obviously you lot got missed with the weed killer - oh rat's I forgot to get that.. ho hum..... never mind - I am chuffed at having a water barrel - yipee...
(small things - small minds,,,,etc....)
Conversion rate is:- 4.54609 litres per Imperial gallon..
Hence = 41.794 Imperial gallons.
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:31 pm
by Jude
J.R. wrote:Jude wrote:purchased 1 water barrel - holds 190 litres ( wot's that in real money????)
I think you lot have gone to seed! After all, I did weed the front and have watered the garden, but obviously you lot got missed with the weed killer - oh rat's I forgot to get that.. ho hum..... never mind - I am chuffed at having a water barrel - yipee...
(small things - small minds,,,,etc....)
Conversion rate is:- 4.54609 litres per Imperial gallon..
Hence = 41.794 Imperial gallons.
Blimey oh riley - that's a lot! my car only takes 45 litres! no wonder it didn't get even a third full from daughter's shower!
Better still if I started up beer making again - 41½ gallons of beer!!!!
now that's something to drink about!!!
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 8:07 pm
by sejintenej
Jude wrote: Some of us only get as far as the end of the local road if that!
AFAIR Stonehouse got as far as Australia and had a far longer holiday. Even got the taxpayer to fund his return flight (probably clubclass as well)
Jude wrote:huh. It's been very humid here - in fact today is horrible - it's partially overcast, with the odd bit of sun, but SOOOO humid.... Anyhow, have watered the garden (using the water syphoned from daughters shower in the bath....see I'm using the water twice, have picked some pansies to press, and I have 3 beautiful sweet peas out in flower - two purple/blues and one cornflower blue... very pretty!
so, what's wrong with your shower / bath water? OTOH perhaps we don't want to know. Did your daughter make the sweet peas blue? Peeps have got to know these things
Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 10:14 pm
by Jude
Living in France you probably don't know these things dear, but
a) there is a water shortage
b) being on a water meter makes you think about the cost
c) I'm being environmentally friendly
d) nothing wrong with the water - hence it gets used twice one to wash and one to water the garden -
boom boom!
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 12:43 am
by Hannoir
so is it still hot?
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 2:44 am
by J.R.
Jude wrote:J.R. wrote:Jude wrote:purchased 1 water barrel - holds 190 litres ( wot's that in real money????)
I think you lot have gone to seed! After all, I did weed the front and have watered the garden, but obviously you lot got missed with the weed killer - oh rat's I forgot to get that.. ho hum..... never mind - I am chuffed at having a water barrel - yipee...
(small things - small minds,,,,etc....)
Conversion rate is:- 4.54609 litres per Imperial gallon..
Hence = 41.794 Imperial gallons.
Blimey oh riley - that's a lot! my car only takes 45 litres! no wonder it didn't get even a third full from daughter's shower!
Better still if I started up beer making again - 41½ gallons of beer!!!!
now that's something to drink about!!!
Let me know when the fermentation is complete !
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:40 am
by Jude
I havea recipe for bitter, (but it's quite sweet for those lager louts!) and normally only make 11 gallons at a time - it requires a large dustbin, takes 11 days to ferment and be bottled into lemonade, cola bottles - don't have enough space time continuim to make 11 gallons
Anyhow we have started filling the water butt with WATER!!
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 12:11 pm
by englishangel
Hannoir wrote:so is it still hot?
Not hot, pleasantly warm, (22-24) and supposed to remain so for a week.
This is in the barmy (sorry balmy) south.
The north, (and I am not going into definitions here) has gales and torrential rain.
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:35 pm
by Euterpe13
Well, my Ma is in Haslemere, donc south, and she was complaining yesterday that it had turned " cold" again and that she had got her woolies out of the cupboard again !
Hoever, since she is shortly coming out to BCN ( where the temperature is 30ish) for the summer, she says that she can put up with the bad weather...
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:44 pm
by J.R.
Euterpe13 wrote:Well, my Ma is in Haslemere, donc south, and she was complaining yesterday that it had turned " cold" again and that she had got her woolies out of the cupboard again !
Hoever, since she is shortly coming out to BCN ( where the temperature is 30ish) for the summer, she says that she can put up with the bad weather...
It was cool and breezy in Surrey yesterday.
Today, warm and sunny with quite a stiff wind !
Michael Fish, eat yer heart out !
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:34 pm
by Hendrik
dogger, german bight...
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 7:11 pm
by hoob
sejintenej wrote:so, what's wrong with your shower / bath water? OTOH perhaps we don't want to know. Did your daughter make the sweet peas blue? Peeps have got to know these things
What kind of sweets do you have to eat to pea blue? got lost somewhere
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:33 pm
by Jude
hoob wrote:sejintenej wrote:so, what's wrong with your shower / bath water? OTOH perhaps we don't want to know. Did your daughter make the sweet peas blue? Peeps have got to know these things
What kind of sweets do you have to eat to pea blue? got lost somewhere
Don't know, but eating a lot of beetroot makes all my rear end stuff pinky/purple and my pees pink too!!!
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 8:40 pm
by cj
hoob wrote:sejintenej wrote:so, what's wrong with your shower / bath water? OTOH perhaps we don't want to know. Did your daughter make the sweet peas blue? Peeps have got to know these things
What kind of sweets do you have to eat to pea blue? got lost somewhere
Parma violets or blue smarties.
Devon weather couldn't make it's mind up as to what it was doing today. Like some bizarre strip show, cardi off, cardi on, now a jacket, then neither ... But have finally bought a summer-weight duvet. Just bliss after years of sweating it out under a 15 togger (cue JR).