June 2011

Friday, 24 June 2011 On a bitterly cold and blustery Friday we made a date with Neil to go and do a bit of crack repair. Unlike Leonard Cohen of whom I borrowed the title quote our crack didn’t let the light get in but rather let the water out and the field was rather […]

Wednesday, 22 June 2011 In amongst all the work fixing up the flatlet for the new tenant we still found time to zoot off to Van Stadens with all the materials, including a wooden box, to “quickly” pour some concrete around the offending leak. Ha, when we arrived we found that, in spite of the

Saturday, 18 June 2011 Today we went to Van Stadens for pleasure, planning a little bit of work but mainly to do the cycle route we had been discussing. Got away a bit later than usual and we arrived at the reserve just in time for coffee and then we got our bikes in gear

Sunday, 12 June 2011 Well, last Sunday was the “official” switch on of the pipe, Neil did an excellent job giving our visitors a bit of background on the water supply and the trials and tribulations of the whole project. For the occasion I quickly switched the pipe so we had water running by the

Friday, 3 June 2011 Another trip to Van Stadens, this time to connect the final piece of pipe to take us all the way to the storage tanks. We first had a look how the trench had been filled in, a rough job with the frontloader but at least it is covered. We wanted to