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Hosepipe ban scheduled for West Wales
« on: January 26, 2016, 16:05:35 »
This is the drainage ditch outside my gate (not a river)  :shock:

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Re: Hosepipe ban scheduled for West Wales
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2016, 16:45:37 »
Blinking climate change. West Wales was virtually desert, once upon a time.  lol


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Re: Hosepipe ban scheduled for West Wales
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2016, 16:47:09 »
Sure sign of a hosepipe ban
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Re: Hosepipe ban scheduled for West Wales
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2016, 17:12:01 »
I bet you are glad you live on a hill , the village at the bottom of that road must surely be flooded ?
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Re: Hosepipe ban scheduled for West Wales
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2016, 17:24:12 »
If they do ban hosepipes you'll have to wash the bike with the soup dispenser.

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Re: Hosepipe ban scheduled for West Wales
« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2016, 17:34:20 »
Is Cymarc's new water-cooled Beemer parked just up the road?
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Re: Hosepipe ban scheduled for West Wales
« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2016, 18:23:54 »
The sun has been shining all day in Dorset (above the heavy grey cloud).
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Re: Hosepipe ban scheduled for West Wales
« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2016, 18:32:30 »
I spent the weekend at Lochearnhead & the loch had a tide mark about 4 feet above normal - over a 6 mile long puddle, that's a bucket load of water! :shock:
Oh yeah, and it was persisting down when I left today....
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Re: Hosepipe ban scheduled for West Wales
« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2016, 21:09:32 »
Is that welsh magic water? It looks like its running uphill!

Need to buy a ditch-dredger, Andy, that's just containing the run-off.
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Re: Hosepipe ban scheduled for West Wales
« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2016, 21:26:47 »
Don't worry everyone.

We're selling all that water to the English... And throughout all my inland diving I've peed in it all.



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Re: Hosepipe ban scheduled for West Wales
« Reply #10 on: January 27, 2016, 05:49:58 »
That looks like a job for earthcore's ditchpump. lol
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Re: Hosepipe ban scheduled for West Wales
« Reply #11 on: January 27, 2016, 09:53:10 »
Looks like a serious leek to me.                                                                      Sorry :violence-smack:

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Re: Hosepipe ban scheduled for West Wales
« Reply #12 on: January 27, 2016, 11:30:44 »
When I lived in the Brechfa Forest, Carmarthenshire, I noticed he track up to our house was very rutted. I suggested to the farmer I pour in hardcore to make driving up easier. He said I could but it would soon find its way down.Come the first winter I found out why....the track became a torrent in heavy rain. Water finds its own way down the mountain! It did have benefits though, our spring water was better than any you could buy bottled. Water and Wales...the way it was meant to be!

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Re: Hosepipe ban scheduled for West Wales
« Reply #13 on: January 29, 2016, 16:40:48 »
Should have kept the KTM then you could have played in it :)
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Re: Hosepipe ban scheduled for West Wales
« Reply #14 on: January 29, 2016, 18:40:07 »
Nah, too wet and cold  :old:
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Re: Hosepipe ban scheduled for West Wales
« Reply #15 on: January 30, 2016, 09:29:54 »
That was empty in August when we were there  :thumb:
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Re: Hosepipe ban scheduled for West Wales
« Reply #16 on: January 30, 2016, 09:32:30 »
It's empty again now, I wonder for how long ?
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