A WATER BUTT that is!

I’ve been meaning to get a water butt for literally years, and when the hosepipe ban was introduced I said to myself now is the time! (NB – I often say things to myself, occasionally having complete discussions or as a true liberal -dissagreements!)

Of course since buying and installing my butt it has rarely stopped raining for the following 10 days. So undoubtedly you can blame my purchase for the biblical standard downpours that we suffered last week.

Oh the joy, the sheer excitement as I have surveyed my Water Butt each morning to see how much extra water I had garnered overnight – a fact that I have felt obliged to update my better half about each and every morning since.

On a serious note though it has made me realise how we take water for granted and how much water we just allow to wash away, and the ease with which we just turn on the tap.

Water butts are very cheap these days and come in all shapes and sizes to suit, I would recommend anyone with a garden of any size to get one. You usually have to attach it to a downpipe but if I could manage that then believe me you can.