The ban is still on

[ACE]

I know the last thing you want at the moment is a hosepipe, but the ban is going to stay for a while according to the news today.

Here I am in the middle of a drought, and I am sat at home twiddling my thumbs and looking at my webbed feet, also losing a fortune cause it is hissing down outside.

I could put on all the gear and get on with the work but I shall have a lot of restoration work to do later as the ground is so wet I will churn it all up.

I am tempted to look at last minute flights, to see if I can go somewhere dry for a while.

[ACE]

[cornykev]

:) :)Still a hosepipe ban here in Enfield, where are you Ace looks The Channel Islands Sark maybe? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Robert_Brenchley]

Drifting in the middle of the most crowded sealane on Earth, in imminent danger of being run down by whatever's passing.

[wahaj]

what a load of crap.

I was speaking to someone about this the other day. we didn't have a ban here last year...but if we have one this year....i will still be using a hosepipe in my garden. they can come and arrest me for all they like.

hosepipe use in the garden is only 5% of the water used in a household every year. it's hardely the biggest problem facing us in this drought. gardeners are being picked on because to some people, watering your garden isn't an important part of life.

the problem is with the water companies not fixing their massive pipe leaks that waste 1000s of gallons of water every hour per leak. yet they're not willing to invest any money on fixing them. it's much easier for them to impose bans onto people.

so as i said, they can lock me up, but until they do....i'll be using my hosepipe every morning on my garden in the summer.

[rosebud]

Ace,  we were only discussing this about 2 days ago, it has swamped the back garden, yet they still hold on to this ridiculous hosepipe ban says it all really .

[cornykev]

>:( >:( Sometimes here in London they let the burst pipes in the road leak for days on end, do they get fined for wasting water hell no they hide behind excuses and we get is a pipe ban. >:( >:( >:(

[Svengali]

Can you imagine what would happen if the GAS companies, whose pipeline network is just as old as the water companies, had the same level of leakage? If they can maintain their pipes, so should the water companies be able to. They just don't have the compelling urgency.

[kt.]

No hosepipe ban here. But my father in law lives in Brighton. He rekons when the hosepipe ban is in force - police helicopters, when in the air - also look down on peoples gardens. Those with luscious green lawns amongst the desert wilderness of the south are then visited and charged by the local boys in blue on the ground.

[froglets]

When all this started a few years ago i got paranoid & wrote to the local water authority & told them we were useing grey water on the garden piped from the house so could they please not ghet suspicious if our garden was alive & all around were dead.  Got a nice letter back saying thanks for recycling.  Put my mind at rest at least ( & ok I did once fill the bath with cold water & run it stright out again 'cos some newly planted things were looking dire....)

[tim]

Squeaky clean, me - bought a butt pump!!

[manicscousers]

sounds a bit painful  ;)

[tim]

Oh, not again? Can't live it down!!

[wahaj]

Squeaky clean, me - bought a butt pump!!

you mean a douche?

[cornykev]

You did say butt pump didn't you Tim. In the summer you could fill up a paddling pool, hose down your patio but I was  told no to watering my newly laid lawn turf and nicely coming along grass seed. So what did I do
fill up a paddling pool and empty on the grass and hose the patio and paths cunningly soaking the edges of the lawn. But I couldn't stop there so I did sneak out about ten o'clock and hose down the lawn, used to see my nextdoor neighbour doing the same so we made a pact to keep mum. :-X :-X :-X :-X ;D ;D ;D

[wahaj]

well if you're doing it that way......

you are allowing to use a watering can, but not a direct hose pipe. why not put your put your hosepipe inside a watering can and water that way? technically you're only using your watering can lol.

[Georgie]

I have to admit that that's what I did for my pots this year.  With over 150 of them I couldn't think of any other option.

G x

[ACE]

I used to wheel the harley over to the flower beds and hose it down. You could use the hose on a motorcycle but not the car. It never got wet though.

[Mrs Ava]

Well, no hosepipe ban in this part of Essex, but I am still saving all the 'spare' water when waiting for the taps to run hot, or when emptying the kids water bottles after school and pouring it into empty 6 pint milk bottles.  They are all staking up like the great wall of chelmsford on the plot!

[tim]

Again, technically, Wahaj, you have to be within 6' of the supply tap!

[wahaj]

Again, technically, Wahaj, you have to be within 6' of the supply tap!

christ! well i'll still be watering my garden next summer. every morning and probably every evening aswell in the really hot days.

my cherry tree nearly died this year....but by giving it about 5 buckets of water every day, it seems to have pulled through. and i'll do it again! lol