Front Yard Water Feature

As we walked up the garden path on our arrival 10 days ago we were greeted by a trickle, I say trickle more like a steady stream of water coming down to meet us. This I assure you was not a planned stream.

We know a plumber - always a handy phrase to be able to say and I got straight on the phone to Martin. He is a lovely man, amazingly big hands - not sure what that says about either him or me.

A few days later he turns up to access the situation and say oh right it's a bigger leak than I thought. Let me see if I can locate the stopcock.
I will save you from the saga but to say that 10 days later we still don't know where our stopcock is and a diviner and metal detector has been used.
That's not to say we didn't find A stopcock, but just not ours. That stopcock is sitting proudly in the middle of our garden and according to Martin is probably "belongs to some cute farmer".

A builder is needed to dig up the pathway and that job is remarkably quick, for Kerry time that is. and we find the source of the leak.

More interestingly we discover that we have very old piping which is not ideal. And to make the situation worse the plumbers do not have any fittings to use on this old piping fitting.

A temporary job is done to stop the leak and we now await the necessary part that needs to come from Dublin = the joys of rural living.

The sage continues but hopefully not for too much longer but it goes a long way to establishing our main entrance as the door into the sun lounge.
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