History
The rain on drains
‘The farm was built in 1720, is listed (Grade II) and had been unused for some years. Around in were some quaint streams, so our ‘dear’ architect Johnathon suggested quite corrected that we conduct a die test. This entailed us placing a bright blue die in the toilet bowl in the house & flushing the loo. At high speed we followed the ‘bloo’ trail. Fifteen minutes later blue die was flowing through the stream beside the public path in the nearby caravan park! We had a serious problem!
As winter drew in, we dug and laid three thousand metres of main drains to the nearby village, where we were to connect to the public sewer. At about the ¾ way point, with aching arthritic joints and the smell of clay permeated forever in our clothes, there was a mighty storm, a flash flood and all our pipes were strewn around the field! It was the first of many times I wept, as we painstakingly dug out the 300 tonnes of pea gravel and began again!’
Huntick Rd, Lytchett Minster, Poole, Dorset, BH16 6BA