On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 21:22:45 +0100, "Sparks" wrote:


So if there was a "hosepipe ban" I couldn't use this water?
Seems a bit daft to me!!

The rules can be silly.

My parents used to have a swimming pool in the back garden. This was
during the 1977(?) drought.

Under the rules we were allowed to use hundreds of gallons of water in
order to keep the pool topped up, but the neighbours couldn't use a
garden sprinkler.

The water system failed on several occasions. We used to leave the
back gate open and neighbours would come around with a bucket and take
water from the swimming pool.

Graham