"Stephen Burt" wrote in message
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:
: Col wrote:
: .......I'm going to water the lawn.
:
: I wish I could. We've had a hosepipe ban since April. My lawn is the
: colour of a digestive biscuit (18 mm of rain in the last 7 weeks) and
: precious little I can do about it!

only since april - pah beginner

Apparantly (according to the nice chap that bollocked me at christmas) there
has been a hosepipe ban around here (chatham) for pretty much all eternity

Si