Thursday, March 29, 2007

JUST TO PROVE IT!


Here is a bad photo which I have just taken from the balcony [nearly strangling myself with the clothesline in the process] of the comune lorry pumping water into our cistern. So now you all know that it really does happen!

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

And we all take our water for granted here.

Welshcakes Limoncello said...

Hi, Ellee, I never thought about it in the UK but now I know how lucky you are when you can turn on the tap and be fairly sure that water will come out! - Not that our water problems are anything like those of some African countries , of course but I have to be honest and say that that does not make me feel much better.

Anonymous said...

Good for you. It must be a royal pain waiting for the water delivery.

Welshcakes Limoncello said...

Hi, Steve. A pain indeed, because that goddam lorry will always come when I am in the shower or something!

Lee said...

I'm glad you didn't fall off that balcony, Welsh!

When the mountain is without rain for a lengthy time the water trucks fill up people's tanks.

I'm okay here on this property as we have our own bore as well as being dependent on rain water. Beautiful mountain water that is endless, we've been told. The aquifer is loaded with water, not that I or my landlords waste it.

jmb said...

Wow,
Thanks a bit unsettling, isn't it? In Australia many people still depend on rainwater which they collect off their roofs into cisterns. My SIL and BIL have a cistern for the house and one for the horses which comes off the roof of the stables. They only have to have water trucked in about once every 18 months or so. But when you stay with them you are aware how they don't waste water.
Regards
jmb

Anonymous said...

I can't imagine what you go through eeking out the water until it is delivered. I hope it is Good Water - do you have to boil it to drink?

[It's me again WL - I am back as you'll see by the Owl! Thank you for your Good Wishes, I feel a fraud now but I had to make changes, refocus and am happy with what i've come up with. No numbers game though!]

James Higham said...

Never doubted it for one moment.

Welshcakes Limoncello said...

So am I, Lee! Yes, you do learn not to waste water when it's delivered like this! jmb, Shirl [and glad you're back, Shirl!] lately they have been quite efficient, delivering every 8 days without our having to ring up and ask. We don't usually have to eke it out, Shirl but it's in the summer that it's a nightmare! There is then more demand on the system, they are understaffed and it all breaks down! Thanks, James. Auguri a tutti.

Ballpoint Wren said...

A pain indeed, because that goddam lorry will always come when I am in the shower or something!

LOL!

My boys are the product of a seemingly neverending water supply. They'll leave it running "to warm up" and wander off and forget it. They are too young to remember water rules brought on by some bad droughts and too old to listen to their mother—without some direct threats involved, anyway.

Welshcakes Limoncello said...

Hi, bonnie. I guess they're just being boys!

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