Wildwood water issues 29/10/12

Rikki

Rikki

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Just had a phone call from someone describing what sound to me like low mains water pressure, anyone else got any problems? No incidents showing up on the severn trent website at the moment.

They had slower than usual cold water flow from kitchen tap but no flow at any other taps.
 
Withnail

Withnail

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No probs chez moi.

I have a feeling we were given a notice from Severn Trent as regards to water works in the offing, but darned if i can remember when it was due, and cannot find any paper based evidence that such notice was given, which tbf is only to be expected in the omnishambles that is my house.

Wednesday of last week my tap chuntered and spat at me like a beast possessed - so much so that i thought i would have to cancel my quarterly ablutions* - which made me think the water works were scheduled for then, but i have a vague recollection of checking the since lost notification and ruling that out.

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Rikki said:
anyone else got any problems?
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no.


*If you have heard the story of Elizabeth I bathing quarterly and wondered whether the story is true then i can tell you that it is. The bit about her possibly 'saying' she did so whether 'she needs it or not' is only half true. The 'need(ing) it or not' bit was provided by the Ambassador to somewhere-or-other who was amazed that someone would bathe so often.
 
wildwood

wildwood

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Yes indeed we had a letter about pipe cleaning in the area over a few weeks. Last night about 10pm, a man in a white van, came and fitted some kind of hydrant right at the bottom of our drive, turned it on so water was flooding down the street and got back in his van for 20 minutes - got out, turned it off then turned it back on again and got back in van. During this time we had no water at all. It was back on by about 11pm.

Good job it never froze last night - our street would've been like an ice rink this morning.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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John said:
Ah but your end of town is notoriously bleak and cold, not the subtropical paradise that is Wildwood...
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There is truth in what you say. In the days when I used to cycle in your direction, there was often a noticeable apparent warming after I had passed under the railway on the Fairway/Baswich track. And, of course, you are much further south, and a couple of miles nearer the Sun...
 
proactive

proactive

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Gramaisc said:
There is truth in what you say. In the days when I used to cycle in your direction, there was often a noticeable apparent warming after I had passed under the railway on the Fairway/Baswich track. And, of course, you are much further south, and a couple of miles nearer the Sun...
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I don't actually live in Wildwood, merely visit it often. However, the temperate climate there makes me aspire to, one day, call it my home.
 
Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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John said:
I don't actually live in Wildwood, merely visit it often. However, the temperate climate there makes me aspire to, one day, call it my home.
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It's the gravelly soil, a relic of the glacial times, that is part of it, I believe. The soil surface is drier and heats up faster during the morning, as well as the warm air rising up the ridges....
 
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