A Little Local Difficulty ...

It is said that miracles happen, sometimes a degree of patience may be involved before such a thing happens.  Thankfully we would seem to be the happy recipients of such an event as the medium term weather forecast for the next fourteen days

Looks as though there is a major domestic problem. Our house is not connected, nor remotely near, any form of mains drainage. Waste grey water from the shower and washing machine is dispersed via grease traps and soakaways as is that from the kitchen sink and dishwasher albeit on a different soakaway. The problem is that the kitchen sink will not empty because abnormally high rainfall over the past six weeks has caused the local water table to rise above the height of said soakaway.

There is little chance of the water table dropping in the immediate future because the fields surrounding us are at saturation point, our house is on a gentle slope below some of these fields, the run-off from which can be seen trickling across our little chemin (lane) below us.

The immediate solution is an ordinary garden hose (well, three fifty metre lengths coupled together) siphoning water away to a lower level away from the house. Progress is slow, very slow. Thankfully no rain is forecast for the next ten days at least so hopefully things may slowly return to normal ...