Thwarted Ducklings Plan Phase Two. As our next door neighbour predicted, the hosepipe ban came into effect on the 5th of April. There was, as expected a lot of confusion about what we could and couldn’t do with hosepipes. After about two days of discussions and worrying we all just gave up and carried on as usual. There didn’t seem to be anything set in stone about filling up water tanks on boats. Without that water we wouldn’t be able to drink or wash so we all just figured that we came under the ‘health’ section of the ban and were exempt. It didn’t really matter, merely days after the ban came into effect it started to rain and it just didn’t seem to want to stop. There were a lot of bad jokes about water shortages as we all sloshed about in the rain. My poor car was definitely showing signs of leakage. There was at least an inch of water in the front passenger foot well and the children were beginning to moan about trench foot.
