Whilst puzzling over what to write in this post, I looked down at the floor at my barefoot.
Yikes! A clear dark stain is clearly visible over the top of each foot. I recall that I’ve been wearing my jandals when playing croquet over the past number of weeks.
Non-New Zealanders may not be familiar with the term “jandal”. They are known by a variety of names in various parts of our world, like sandals, flip-flops and thongs. My jandals are,of course not jandals,but really a kind of Roman Sandal, as worn by Julius Caesar and others of his time.
After complaining in a number of blog posts towards the end of 2014 about the extremely wet weather and general lack of summeriness, it is clear that, after participating in a few outdoor croquet matches, I have underestimated the NZ sun’s wrath. January has proven to be warm and dry, with panic stations starting to develop at the sight of the water-level readings in our drinking water tank,namely a tad less than 4k (4,000 litres).This represents about five days’ reserve of supplies,without taking into account the irrigation watering requirements of the new veggie bed.
I understand that the weatherman is (sort of) promising that there may be some rain in the “pipeline” for us within the next seven days. Here’s hoping…
We have taken approximate measurements of the roof gutter drip-line and come up with the number of 350. Taking into account that my long-hand multiplication may naturally be a bit slurred, this would mean that we can expect to get 350 litres of water for every millimetre of rainfall.Please check decimal point 350m2 x .001m = 0.35 m3 or 46mm should fill a16,000 litre tank. Or am I in the wrong decimal?
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