Water Abstraction

Mar 16, 2006 31 Replies

I can confirm this.

Once a very long time ago, our school decided to have an army style easter holiday camp climbing welsh mountains.

After nearly freezing to death getting stuck overnight hitching there, we arrived to find the best spots for our miserable pup tents already taken - nice streamside locations all gone. We parked ours up the bank aways, and attempted to sleep...and it rained...and it rained...there was some kerfuffle about 3 in the morning but having spent the previous one shivering in a phone box in some unpronounceable welsh town, we paid little heed.

Until the following morning when we discovered that rain and melting snow, plus a dead sheep that had washed down the stream and neatly blocked the hole in the dry stone wall through which it ran, had turned the desirable tent locations into something resembling the sort of thing that usually gets the world supply of press helicopters hovering overhead, and food parcels being dropped.

WE didn't see any helicopters apart from the one we found the next day crashed up the snow covered mountain that the army search teams were NOT looking on.

I think it was about that time that my lifelong love affair with central heating and temperatures in excess of 25C started.

The message from The Natural Philosopher contains these words:

URWCFieldsAICM£5

You can call him WC for convenience.

Brilliant! Puts me in mind of my headmaster 40-odd years ago whose name was W C Fallows. He was always referred to (but not to his face!) as Flush.

The message from "Roger Mills \(aka Set Square\)" contains these words:

My fathers initials were AWC. He was a headmaster as well but his pupils called him Plug. I assumed at the time that the reference was to his hearing aid but thinking back the toilet connection is probably the more obvious.

The message from Roger contains these words:

My headmaster was Alan Tammadge - universally referred to (even by the staff in unguarded moments) as Tampax.

They're not called "Boring Engineers" any more? :-(

(Those specialising in water extraction being "Well Boring Engineers" of course...)

Jim

That joke is unfortunately no longer in the book (Civil Engineers).

Should be easy enough. Watched the water board man find the mains with his dowsing rods. :)

My current wife used to be able to do this, must do a test run.

If she is a current wife surely she must dowse for cables rather than water ?

AWEM

Based on a conversation I had with a colleague on Friday, you may also need an abstraction licence from the Environment Agency (I've got a borehole sat in the immediate vicinity of where I want to build a 183m tall chimney - as you do - and need to sink a new borehole!)

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