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Cleaning the Water Tank

We’ve been meaning to clean out the water tank for ages but of course all the other jobs took priority until we were watering the gardens a couple of days ago and the water pressure dropped and the hoses started spluttering, stopping, spluttering again. After I’d fiddled around opening taps all over the place thinking there was air in the system somewhere Andy decided to go check out the tank and found a huge mass of eucalyptus roots clogging the main tap coming out of the tank. So the next day he had to get down and dirty and clean it out. Oh yeah, don’t be alarmed by the pics, this isn’t our drinking water and that’s the accumulated sludge of 10,000 litres of water over more than a year!

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3 Comments

  1. Amanda says:

    I remember doing that lovely job last year, with Claire! XoXo.

  2. sophie says:

    surely that was longer ago than last year? 2 years ago? more? and was it that big tank or the little one? oh my memory is so bad i used to keep it online. but now i can’t access my electronic memory files because i’ve lost them along with the old blog, with all the lovely pics of you, and brandon, and claire, and all the nice things you wrote about being here, and all the pics and writings of all our other lovely wwoofers that have been part of our journey and our family. boo hoo :(

  3. Amanda says:

    Ugh that sucks. You’re right, it was two years ago. And I’m not sure which one it was. It seemed big.

    Do you still have a disc of the pictures that Brandon gave you? If not, we can send you one. Let me know. We still have all of them. It’s terrible to have lost everything that the WWOOFers have written though.

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