Star picket 1 PVC pipe 0
Repaired
Hi folks,
The days are clicking by frighteningly fast.
Today the main task was digging the trenches for the gas pipe and sewer connections for the new community kitchen. This suffered a setback this morning with the abysmal weather and then a person described by the perpendicular pronoun decided to bang a star picket through a storm water pipe while it was raining. Said pipe obviously discharges higher than the hole as there was considerable back flow. After considerable digging, the purchase of around $10 of fittings and application of the appropriate amount of swearing the pipe was repaired at the cost of about 2 hours of work. Lesson learned, dial before you dig or in this case think before you dig. Adjacent this hole there was also a buried electrical conduit plus what appear to be 2 black poly water pipes. Digging to find the sewer connection was more successful with no breakages of a poly pipe water supply or a mysterious white PVC pipe about 40 mm in diameter. With people leaving and days off the digging crew tomorrow will consist of the dynamic duo, Morphine and myself. Susan will take a well earned day off and travel to Hobart for a book launch by a Nubeena local plus visit a pub on business!
Community dinner tonight farewelled Johnny who leaves on Saturday along with Walther. We shall be just 5. Tonight's table discussion was again highly amusing and not fit to print in a family blog.
That's all folks.
cheers Simon
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