Why is the billy black?

[william williams]

don't worry about the frogs getting in as they keep the wrigglers down cause their your future mosquitoes but you sure have got no strainer on your tanks and no chicken wire on your outlet so these narsties can not get in just goes to show how slack people get

bill the old battler

[Glenny Palmer]

Wanna have a really good cry???

I visited my (rather townie) daughter at her shiny new house in a shiny new 'estate'
& sitting up against the side fence (2 feet away from the shiny next door neighbour)
was.....a rainwater tank!! Yay!!

Now for the head in your hands bit....

It had a big green sign on the tank saying.....

''WARNING!! Rainwater!!................

[Heather]

I don't know about other states but in Victoria you can only use tank water in town for the garden and not for human consumption. I detest town water; I can smell the chlorine before I see the water and I won't drink it unless desperate.

Not sure what my tank has in the way of vermin exlusion Bill. Some time before we'd had a humungous storm that had rolled a poly water tank down the very big hill, it went smack bang through trees, fences, landed and bounced off the cubby roof and then landed on the tank before plonking itself next to the tank. Kinda destroyed the corrugated iron on the tank roof - but in the end that was ok because it missed the house (where my son was sleeping) by inches and I nearly got clobbered by a falling ladder so the ruined tank was nothing in the end. If that ladder had got me I wouldn't be here now. That was the tail end of Cyclone Vance that destroyed Exmouth in WA. Hate to have seen the cyclone itself.

Heather

[manfredvijars]

floating dead rodents that have long since this world left.

Bob

BOB!!!! Inversions inversions INVERSIONS????

Repeat after me (at least 347 times) ... "THOU SHALT NOT INVERSIONATE!!!"

[r.magnay]

...actually our new house in Port Lincoln....(Which just by the way, we will be living in in a few months time!) has a great big rainwater storage which hopefully will be enough to keep the whole place in water all year 'round! We have some 300 square metres of catchment area, and according to the rainfall charts off the net that I based my calculations on, we should never need to use mains water!....but what does any of this have to do with a black billy I wonder!....

[Heather]

Ooops, did we wander? Unheard of.....

[Terry]

Seeing as we are wandering a bit I may as well mention this.

When we first stared getting serious about gold (mid seventies) some of the stations were we were searching, had been abandoned for years and the only water available was from disused wells. So we used to have a rope about 100 foot long which we used to lower a bucket down then to get water. we had been getting water this way from a well called 'Paddy's Well' and we reckoned it was pretty good water as well. Then one day we started hauling up kangaroo bones and other bits and pieces but as this was the only water to be had for a fair way and we hadn't got crook so far we kept using it, mind you be always boiled it for drinking water from then on.
This sort of thing became quite a regular occurrence but strangely enough we never had any upset tummies that I can recall. In later years (when my wife was prospecting with me) we always tried to carry enough town water for drining and just used well and bore water for showering and washing etc.

Terry

[Bob Pacey]

Poetic lisence Manfred. What is inversonate anyway ????? can not be bothered to look it up.


Bob

[Heather]

Bob, inversionate is when you put the "c" where the "s" should be and the "s" where the "c" should be.

Easy really. Clearer now?

Heather

[Bob Pacey]

But there is no C in there ?

and siht looks funny ?

Bob