drainage collage

the last few days have been taken up with looking for existing drains, which seem never to be where they are meant to be on paper: this included digging up the neighbour’s garden (with permission, obviously) and of course the usual divining rod, as well as a technological version (which didn’t seem nearly as effect as the old hazel twig, or could have been willow or peach. In the end the thing that worked was just digging up lots of earth until we found them, and of course now that we are actually building on the site, this is something that we can do, and is in fact what we will be doing for the next few months! So now I am looking down at our newly installed drainage, thinking that this is the system that will take away all of our family’s ablutions for years to come (not to mention that it looks capable of serving the whole of Portobello!)