We got Water

Here we are then a tanker full of water and all we have to do is connect it to the supply pipe in the cellar. We being the mayor, still in sandals, and me. First hurdle I don't speak much French and he speaks no English at all. We have a hosepipe but it is not quite long enough to reach from the tanker to the cellar. Not to worry by sign language I get the message that we need to connect one end of the hosepipe to the point in the cellar. Easy peasy a couple of clamps and a sharp knife sorted! Now we only 20ft away from getting water back. Mayor gets across to me that he is going to get some pipe that he has that should do the job so I rest for an hour. Well what else is a bloke supposed to do? Mayor returns with pipe yeehaa its long enough, great.... Problem; its a different diameter to the one we already got so we need to cobble together a reducer of some kind. Hey, you couldn't write a comedy script as funny as this. Real life is far funnier sometimes. By soldering a couple of pieces of copper pipe together we finally join the pipes together only remains now to connect to the tanker. hosepipe to small now! Laugh I nearly cracked me ribs, mayor thinks I've gone bananas for sure. Not only is the pipe to small but we need a tap of some sort to screw into the tanker . Haven't got one sooo off to the hardware store armed with a piece of paper with the word tap written on it in French and the size! This time the mayor stays behind. You may laugh but the bit of paper did the trick. Fitted tap to tanker, fitted another reducer to tap, fitted hosepipe to tap and turned it on. Hallelujah we got water back!

now for the source, but that organised for another day. Break out the pastis for a celebration drink.... hic