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nothing new, we have a hosepipe ban every year here. Not enough rain they say (blame Malc for selling his car). Of course its got nothing to do with the 10's of thousands of new homes they keep building has it. Has anybody told them that we are in fact an island and therefore have no end of water all around us (an ever growing amount as the ice caps are melting) ? 
If you could please bring a hose next time you come down, just lay it out along the inside lane of the M11/25 as there will be no chance of anything running over it there. All I will need to do then is call you to turn the tape on when we need water. Maybe we could sort some kind of SMS thingy out so that I could just text your tape the words on/off when needed. Or maybe we could recall all the Oxfam aid workers back from Africa and have them sink a few water holes in Blairs new 3rd world Britain
If you could please bring a hose next time you come down, just lay it out along the inside lane of the M11/25 as there will be no chance of anything running over it there. All I will need to do then is call you to turn the tape on when we need water. Maybe we could sort some kind of SMS thingy out so that I could just text your tape the words on/off when needed. Or maybe we could recall all the Oxfam aid workers back from Africa and have them sink a few water holes in Blairs new 3rd world Britain
I never did understand that some of the driest countries in the world, like Saudi Arabia where I lived for three years or so, have plenty of water thanks to desalination plants. They also purify the salt and sell that on as well. Yet tere in the UK we are constantly short of water. You'd think we could fill reservoirs with winter river flood water or desalinate. Most likely we have the wrong sort of seawater, just like leaves, snow or just about any other thing we can't cope with.
Phil
Phil
I think its down to the amount of energy needed to run a desalination plant (it's always boiling/evaporating water) - in Saudi they've got better chance of using solar power to help with this, (and the area in the desert) or they've got better access to oil!
Alas for us, the water we do have, somehow with the fat profits the water companies made over the last year, not much of it was able to go into fixing the leaks...
Alas for us, the water we do have, somehow with the fat profits the water companies made over the last year, not much of it was able to go into fixing the leaks...
Reason is: Now that BMW have designed a steam powered engine* the government have to think of a way to tax water now that we won't be using petrol anymore. (Brett loves a rip-off Britain post!)
Be round in my steam-powered vette soon!
*(new idea like HUD, keyless entry, wonder where we saw those first)
Be round in my steam-powered vette soon!
*(new idea like HUD, keyless entry, wonder where we saw those first)
malc350 said:
Reason is: Now that BMW have designed a steam powered engine* the government have to think of a way to tax water now that we won't be using petrol anymore. (Brett loves a rip-off Britain post!)
Be round in my steam-powered vette soon!
*(new idea like HUD, keyless entry, wonder where we saw those first)
Malc's alive, call the search party back
(kent meet this weds if ya can make it - LURKER)
franv8 said:
Sorry, just fallen off my chair -
MALC WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!
No vette (sob) made me a bit quiet! Ironic how much money I got for mine when the 20 grand 1989 Callaway for sale in Surrey has found a buyer so quickly. Should be meeting up with the buyer soon when he's picked it up (for old time's sake...)
Malc.
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