OneGuyFromBarlick

Helping hubby to try and sort out our water supply, (again). A massive leak somewhere in the system and we are losing it almost as fast as it is pumped up to the top storage tank from the spring. He drained the tank yesterday and cleared out all the muck that had gathered since it was installed in 1975. There are feed pipes going out to three properties...one of them must be leaking somewhere, but there are no clues on the ground. Any dowsers out there? Anyone any tips on finding leaks in underground plastic pipe please?

One of those sticks that the waterboard guys use to listen for the leak ?

Hello All

Staying in Saint Pol du Leon for a couple of days. The sea was like a mill pond when we came over spent the entire voyage on the deck wonderful. Tomorrow we go down to Le Pouldu to our home.

Eileen

We had a fernch lesson this morning, and friends coming for a meal tonight. Cooking and a bit of cleaning therefore this afternoon

Not doing a great deal.!! Just put our tin tent on ebay, a real bargain as we are selling all the equipment with it, also there is indoor storage for it.

Wendy, cut supply to each pipe in turn and see which cures the loss in the tank

That's exactly what we did yesterday Stanley, and with draining the tank down we were able to discover which pipe fed which property. Col managed to get some elbow fittings for the old pipes, so he could turn them in and out of a small "fill" of water. It was an interesting result. Our neighbours above, with the working farm, always say that they don't use their share of the supply...they have other sources of water, though they pay their share of any maintenance and repairs. The lack of supply made them realise that they were actually using it in one of the sheds. The rare combination of warm, dry conditions when the cattle are still inside meant the water supply was seriously challenged. We were losing over a 1000litres in a few hours. We don't think there is a leak after all. Have yet to discuss it with the neighbour, who is up to is ears in lambing and doesn't need any more problems at the moment!

A day of pottering. I have been sorting out my potplants and giving them a feed ( soory about the pun!!) Claire is coming for tea, Bob is down at Springfield Park , probably running the miniature steam railway. I have time to myself

Aquafit this morning and Art this evening. This afternoon we are off to Burnley cemetery to sort out the interment of Mums and Dads ashes. Dad wanted to be interred in his grandmas grave , Mums ashes are going with him. It has taken a few weeks to track down the grave papers, but my cousin in Tasmania found them,so we can go ahead now

Its abit cool this morning, but my seeds are coming up in the greenhouse and my butternut squash in the seed germinator

We are now settled in our home in Brittany and are now back on line. Very cold in am and night time but it has been very hot this afternoon. Eileen

Thinking of you. We will be back again an about 4 weeks.

I have just looked you up on Google earth. What alovely spot. Its 143 Km from us. Perhaps we can come and see you when we are over in May

Wendy, there's an old saying that good fencing makes good neighbours. In your case the ultimate cure is to put a meter in each outflow pipe from the tank and split the costs on usage. The modern meters aren't that expensive and they would give you all peace of mind.
I am feeling quite guilty about my shed. I am getting mails asking if I am poorly! Must get my mojo going again!

Today I shall be knitting I think, the walk has been abandonned. I have a lacey cardigan to finish for Eve before we go and visit for a couple of days next week. Yoga tonight

I was going to say we will be looking after our great granddaughters whilst their parents go to a funeral but the spent all the time here in our next door's garden with their children.

Smart move to let them go there Moh!
Today is shopping, keeping warm, reading BET and my latest book.... It's hell but someone has to do it!

We had alovely day in Cltheroe and surrounding area yesterday. Todayis bedding change and then out to lunc at some friends. Bob is out at his model engineering tonight so my aim is to finish Eves little lace cardigan. The end is in sight

Today I have been catching up on OGFB and Dave's gone fishing at the local zoo which has a carp fishing lake. Eileen

Today I shall be running a stall at the HAPPA Easter Fayre. 12 to 4 at Shores Hey Farm, Briercliffe. It's a great place to bring the grandchildren!

I shall be finishing off a pastel of a dead tree, then I shall do some sewing on my sewing machine to find out the best way to se strechy material. This evening I will do the bottonhole edge on Eves cardigan. Thats about it. We spent yesterday in Skipton . I hadn't been in years and really loved the day out

Finished my current reading so I shall probably be writing for the BET. I have a couple of subjects bubbling up.

.........looking forward to a meal out tonight at a Turkish 'ocakbasi' restaurant that opened 2mins walk away about 12 months ago, and which we haven't tried yet. It's getting rave reviews. An 'ocakbasi' restaurant is a grill house essentially, with importantly the grill being over proper charcoal not some fake, gas job. Open cooking area inside and comes with a huge extraction system, obviously.

Tomorrow, I'll be having a bet on the National

Richard Broughton

"Tomorrow, I'll be having a bet on the National"

Just had a casual look at the runners. The standout for site members would appear to be the Irish horse "TREACLE". Jockey's colours - all black - they say he's a bit of a dark horse.

I was going to get back in the shed but unfortunately my head has been working on an article for the BET on the closure of the old Midland Bank......

Re-reading a book that Doc gave me, 'The Gun' by Greener. A standard work on the history of firearms. Full of interesting stuff!