under ground stream

[angrybird]

I'd also like to comment on the unusual fact that lots of regulars have welcomed angrybird to the forum and NONE have yet asked for pictures! These standards are slipping so far - it makes a man want to reach for a Kit Kat!

I think he was allowed a little slack because he did promise pictures once they could be resized.

Dear Lady Rowana I have just double checked and my lady lumps are still there! :shock: I do apologise for any confusion :wink:

 

[LadyArowana]

I'd also like to comment on the unusual fact that lots of regulars have welcomed angrybird to the forum and NONE have yet asked for pictures! These standards are slipping so far - it makes a man want to reach for a Kit Kat!

I think he was allowed a little slack because he did promise pictures once they could be resized.

Dear Lady Rowana I have just double checked and my lady lumps are still there! :shock: I do apologise for any confusion :wink:

Sorry about that, I always visualize the angry birds as being male ( apart from the blue one with the long tail ) you are in good company though as I made the same mistake with Zebra.

 

[Bayliss]

Interesting to read of the old houses that have streams running under them, just a couple of weeks back I posted up the 'Mill Cottage' that is for sale and this has a stream running under the cottage in a brick culvert. A quick question, will insurance companies take on the flooding risk or do they insure without flood protection?

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Interesting to read of the old houses that have streams running under them, just a couple of weeks back I posted up the 'Mill Cottage' that is for sale and this has a stream running under the cottage in a brick culvert. A quick question, will insurance companies take on the flooding risk or do they insure without flood protection?

I'd speak to them. The premium will reflect the increased risk. You may decide not to take flood insurance. Although if it is enclosed in a brick culvert I can't see how it would flood the house, rather than up or downstream where it is easier to burst the bank.

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Also worth checking with previous ones when it last flooded, if ever. Also the EA have a good flood risk tool on their website.

 

[steveb]

Although if it is enclosed in a brick culvert I can't see how it would flood the house, rather than up or downstream where it is easier to burst the bank.

When the level of the stream raises to well above the top of the culvert I am guessing the water comes in from both below and from the sides. The problem is likely not so much the culvert leaks upwards (although it does..) but the house was built over the stream in the first place, which sometimes floods. Modern living does not seem as tolerant of this as in previous years.

This pic was taken yesterday - the stream was effectively standing water as the nearby river was at the same level.. The culvert is under that lot somewhere

 

[Bayliss]

A home without flood insurance! well we do get very good warnings about flood risk nowadays so plenty of time to stack the table and chairs off the floor. Guess a few handy pallets stored away ready for the job would do it.

 

[FamilyWiggs]

which sometimes floods. Modern living does not seem as tolerant of this as in previous years.

Quite true - see threads passim ad infinitum re occasional damp, cellar floods during biblical downpours, house is colder in the winter, etc...

I think it is quite nice in some regards that the seasons passing are reflected in changes in our older houses. I much prefer to roll with this (and put on an extra jumper in the winter) than live in some hermetically sealed, temperature and humidity-controlled box that is utterly environmentally consistent 365 days per year. I find it hard to conceive of a more dispriting existence than this.

Thankfully, whilst I have damp and drafts, I don't have flooding cellars which must be an occasional pain. 2 walls of the dining room are still subterranean as we are built in to side of the hill, and the dining room flood has developed puddles on occasion, but so far not this time.

I think it is a great shame that we ignore the passing seasons now, and expect to be able to buy and eat asparagus or strawberries twelve months a year. I'm reading some historical fiction by CJ Sansom at the moment, and am particularly struck by the way years are marked and rememberd as "1526, the year of the Great Dearth", or the "the year of the great summer winds", etc.

A little more Dearth to remind us of our tiny insignificant place in this statisically improbable, and unfathomably vast universe spanning 14.6bn years of expansion, wouldn't go a miss if you ask me.

 

[LadyArowana]

I much prefer to roll with this (and put on an extra jumper in the winter) than live in some hermetically sealed, temperature and humidity-controlled box that is utterly environmentally consistent 365 days per year. I find it hard to conceive of a more dispriting existence than this.

Oh no Mr W, it is completely delightful to wake every morning at 7 when the sun comes up and know for sure that you won't need a coat or even a sweater! I know my cloud timings from home exactly too, so depending where the dark patch is I can tell that there either is, or is not, time to make it to the supermarket and back, or the lovely shops and taxi. Granted the last few days have been a little toasty ( one reading said 35 in the shade ) but that just makes it easier to spot the tourists, they look such a lovely lobster/ beetroot color :lol: I shall miss it when I have to return.

 

[FamilyWiggs]

Predictability is very much over-rated, MiLady. 8)

Imagine going to a beef sandwich restaurant anywhere in the world and knowing that the menu, ingredients, decor, staff uniform and seating plan was the same as anywhere else. It just wouldn't catch on - humans are intrinsically individual creatures who seek out variety and idiosyncracy. :roll:

 

[LadyArowana]

This pic was taken yesterday - the stream was effectively standing water as the nearby river was at the same level.. The culvert is under that lot somewhere

I would keep a very careful watch out for Uruk-hai troops of Isengard

 

[LadyArowana]

Predictability is very much over-rated, MiLady. 8)

Imagine going to a beef sandwich restaurant anywhere in the world and knowing that the menu, ingredients, decor, staff uniform and seating plan was the same as anywhere else. It just wouldn't catch on - humans are intrinsically individual creatures who seek out variety and idiosyncracy. :roll:

:lol:

 

[Penners]

the Great Dearth

Otherwise known - if memory serves - as Lord Vader.