It’s always the way. Fix one leak and it just puts pressure on another part of the pipe. Ideally it all needs replacing but governments just don’t think that way It really sounds like Greece in your video.
Courses and retirement
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Yesterday and today have been the first days this Spring when we have not
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Church
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The Church as seen from my garden today
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I’m agnostic I suppose but I’m a humanist by nature who believes for the
most part that there ...
Californian Quails
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My land is being over run (quite literally run all over) by dinky little
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ea...
Heat.
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22 degrees here yesterday. The towns two beaches packed solid with day
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A fine Autumn day
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Here are some pictures taken today. I finally got out for a much needed
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o...
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Captured Lies by Maggie Thom
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Break out the Ark, quick!
ReplyDeleteI'm not saving those dang goats though. They're loving their new water sources. I can smell em before I see em.
Deleteoh no hope they fix it, what a waste of water though.
ReplyDeleteHuge waste!
DeleteIt’s always the way. Fix one leak and it just puts pressure on another part of the pipe. Ideally it all needs replacing but governments just don’t think that way
ReplyDeleteIt really sounds like Greece in your video.
It's a real Greek drama lol
DeleteIt's a real Greek drama lol
DeleteOh dear!!
ReplyDeleteOh dear. Again
DeleteSometimes it happens here too. very similar. That's probably how it is in rural Mediterranean areas.
ReplyDeleteWe live in very similar environments Yael
Deleteooops! run and hide.
ReplyDeleteYou should see it today. It's a geyser. Without the sulphur lol. So far
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