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On Jun 16, 12:26 pm, "Mary Fisher" wrote:

We never use mains water for the garden and we don't go on holidays - if
we
did we wouldn't bother turning off the water main :-)

We're very relaxed* about such things.

Mary
*aka idle

I would never say that you are idle, I have a picture of you based on
your postings, do you ever sit down???

At the table three times a day for meals and several times a day for short
periods at the pc. Oh, and 45 minutes in the afternoon while I listen to the
play and knit or sew. If I sit down without doing anything I fall asleep :-)

At the other house we have a well, I love it, I have a pump down it
and every evening, when we are there, I am outside watering like mad,
whilst my neighbour looks longingly at my free, soft water. However,
I do water all her plants and shrubs as the jet is so strong that it
reaches her garden easily. I also fill up the troughs for the cows in
the field opposite as the farmer assures me that water is good - it
has a slight colour though.

My Great Aunt Rose who went mad had hand pumped water to her sink in her
Peterborough bungalow. As a ten year old I thought that was wonderful and
begged my mother for one in our house. I could never understand why she
didn't want to. Still can't ...

Mary