Time to Clean the Drains

Well we have had one hell of a start to summer, which seems to have just kept going. On and on the heat has remained, draining the Northern Hemispher of water, and creating some serious fires. I must admit to looking at all the fires and wondering are they all spontanious, or the result of a BBQ, or the lazy flick of a cigaret. 

My skeptical mind says some are the work of people bent of causing mayhem. My real worry is not the fires, or the idiots that cause them, more its the councils that ignore the coming rain. Its not something hidden, its inevitable that rain will fall and with a ground so baked and hard, the runoff will be huge, drains and more important, the road gullies are full of Leafs, its not autum, its the 

Trees droping leafs because of the lack of water. So its time to send out the drain crews to clear the gullies, make sure the gutters are swept and provide a clear passage for the water. Plan that long awaited garden day to just shake up the hard earth to give it chance to soak up the water, oh and add a few drainage tubs to the down pipe, to collect some of the water. 

 Well, this was written a few weeks ago, and the inevitable happened, it raind hard, Thursday, and tested all my thoughts on drainage, I knew it looked like rain, so I took my dog out for a walk armed with a stout brolly, what happen, it rained hard half way round the walk, so we sheltered under a massive oak tree, when it calmed down I spent the rest of the return home cleaning out road gully's of leafs and sticks letting walter flow.