I can confidently forecast the complete lack of rain over the next few
weeks. Oh, how so, you ask. Well, I went to the garden centre this
afternoon, and came back with a new water butt, to replace the one that
split in the freezing weather of December. I also bought two new concrete
pots and four new miniature fir trees, to replace the 5 I lost due to the
cold winter and dry spring. Those trees are going to need watering on a
regular basis, so the water in the water butt will hopefully do that job.
Unfortunately, for water to reach the butt, water needs to run off the four
roofs that serve the downpipe on the back of my house. For water to run off
the roof, short of running a hose from the water mains up there, rain is
needed. So I think I am pretty confident that no rain is going to occur, and
those new fir trees are going to suffer like the last ones. Otherwise I'm
going to have to water them using a watering can filled from the tap under
the sink. So one way or the other my metered water bill is going to go
through the roof that isn't getting any water from the rain that isn't
falling. A lose-lose situation if there ever was one.

Dave, can you wash your car every day please, and sod the Test Matches?

jim, Northampton