I know it has been a while since I have posted, but to be quite honest, not a great deal has been happening. Just the one problem that we keep on having, our Spring is now dry! It is so simple to just turn on a tap and get water. Even the dirty red water we usually get would be a Gods send at the moment. We have red water all the time due to the red soil here in Herefordshire. We also have flowing through our taps here, grass, cow shit, sheep shit, bits of frog skin, live fresh water shrimps and much much more that I am not to certain of to be quite honest.
Now a 5 litre bottle of water is only about £1.20, so you would think it should not be too much of a problem. But when you think that we use water for washing, clothes washing, drinking, cooking, brushing teeth, drinks bottles for the kids for school lunch, heating and flushing toilets, you can see that having no water, not even dirty water, is a bit of a nightmare.
Other years it has been hard enough when the water from the spring has froze in the well and the pipes, but this has been going on now for the last 2 months. Would not really mind, if the water was not being taken by a third party for other uses!!!
Well it has almost come to that time of year again, when wood is being collected and general organisation is being put in place ready for the snow. Just the other day, the Fieldfares flew in from where ever they come from, which is a sure sign that snow is on it's way, which means that we will still have no water in the well, but will be stock piling water in the fields as water. The only time when you don't need water, but cant get anything else you need either.
