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Seen better years.................Poor spoon has lost another part...
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(I do have other, newer, cleaner spoons for cooking... this one is solely reserved for pan banging)
Has anyone heard of the artist support pledge? On Instagram lots of artists are posting works at a special price. I treated myself to this oil painting of the walk to the campsite on St Martin's, Scilly. Cost me as much as a month of fuel normally would, so I haven't really spent anything.View attachment 8473
Are you telling us that @Carole 's butt is leaking?I have observed an interesting phenomenon.
@Carole's butt is fed from the roof of the house - about 70' x 30'. This is a hipped roof with concrete tiles. There is a continuous 'circular' gutter with four downpipes, near each corner The north-western one of these feeds this butt.
The Chalet roof is about 20' square and is plastic-coated steel cladding, with a very slight slope. This feeds a water butt which is connected to two others, carefully arranged to have their tops at the same height, so that the single overflow from the 'primary' butt, into lower-level butts, is sufficient. One of these butts is about 50' away from the other two, and this one gets the most use - I remove about the same amount of water daily from it as I do from Carole's.
I have noticed that the triple system is always full, whenever I use it, but Carole's is down to about half now.
I have an arrangement with the rain gods which keeps May 16th as a dry day every year, although some slight drizzle/heavy dew is allowable in the hours of darkness. This occurred last night and, having noted the two levels in the day, I checked this morning and found that @Carole's butt had not filled at all, but the butts fed by the shed were back to the top level.
There could be two reasons for this, I think, possibly both are responsible.
1, There may have only been enough rain to soak into the concrete tiles, but enough to provide a good run-off from the steel roof.
2, The gutter where the downpipe that feeds the 'house' butt could be slightly above the two downpipes either side of it, meaning that very slight rainfall proceeds down those in preference. I could put some small weirs in the gutter to persuade the water into the 'right' downpipe, if that it the case, I suppose. Two of the other downpipes may yet receive their own butts at some point, but the fourth would be in an awkward location.
I may need to make some investigations in light drizzle conditions.
There could be two reasons for this, I think, possibly both are responsible.
Possibly, but the last time we had some of yer actual proper rain it did fill up - I'll run a can into the top of the downpipe tomorrow and observe the inflow, or lack of, that results.Or reason 3. There is a partial blockage in the down pipe?
This bloke thinks it's OK to spend a few hours every evening shouting his bloody head off from the top of the electricity pole.
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We've had words about it, but I don't think I'm going to win this battle...