We had a phone call from David to ask if our mains water supply pipe ran across the road as it was split and leaking. Yes, our pipe does. From way back, when there were far less houses and no tarmac on the road that is how our water came and it hasn’t changed since. Now the road has been tarmaced our pipe is not fully covered so all the cars to and from the village have to drive over it. It is no surprise that it is leaking, it is just a thin piece of piping. The last time this happened they just repaired the pipe and didn’t sink it in.
I walked Rosie and discovered that the water was like a fountain. I rang the Beledeyir several times and no answer. Eventually someone answered the phone, when they were open and I told them about the leak.
By 9.30, no one had been in spite of the fact I told them the water was gushing out and so much water is just being wasted. Just as I was looking again, the ‘clean machine’ road sweeper came along, stopped at the leak and he made a phone call. Perhaps they will listen to him now. The sensible thing for them to do when they repair it, is to sink it right under the road……. we will see, they didn’t last time.
One man came out, replaced the pipe (didn’t bury it completely) and it was finished by 11.15. The water came back on in the afternoon.
More gardening. Mal dug up a very dangerous cactus. It was ugly and had lethal spikes which meant when I weeded around it, I always got stabbed. He hates killing anything but I’m afraid it was of no use and dangerous. It has gone. It was the landscape gardener who put it in there, goodness only knows why.
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