Two more little bunnies went to the great big clover field in the sky. Which leaves only two. Yesterday Mrs. Bunny appeared to be on heat, so visited the male’s cage. As added insurance, we put the other remaining female with Mr. Bunny as well. She did not appear to be too happy about it.<\/p>\n
Yesterday the high water table had lifted the greywater reedbed sump (which is a 120-litre plastic barrel) out of the ground; despite the sump having about 12 bricks in it, and a large concrete block on top. This meant that the inlet pipe was pointing upwards, so the greywater pipes were full. Which meant the bath wasn’t draining. And the little 12V bilge pump had also stopped working, because the impeller had become clogged, just like the washing machine earlier in the week. However, this time it wasn’t one of LSS’s socks which was the problem, but black gunk. I cleaned everything out and added a few more bricks to the barrel so that the entrance pipe is at least level, if not pointing slightly downwards as it should. I think once the water table drops back to normal levels (if ever) I will have to construct a new sump out of concrete. And perhaps I’ll replace the submersible pump with a surface self-priming type triggered by float switches. I’ll need to do some research on this, if the Internet ever comes back on.<\/p>\n
This morning I bottled this year’s batch of elderflower champagne. All our country wines are being stored upstairs, which is not ideal because it’s a bit warm, and the temperature fluctuates a bit. But we’ve nowhere else to put it at the moment. Once the “ballon<\/em>” room (one of the outbuildings containing the pressure vessel for the well) has been sorted out we can probably store it all in there; but I think it’s unlikely to be done this year. We need to finish sorting out the barn first.<\/p>\n Oh, and LSS has started painting the bathroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two more little bunnies went to the great big clover field in the sky. Which leaves only two. Yesterday Mrs. Bunny appeared to be on heat, so visited the male’s cage. As added insurance, we put the other remaining female with Mr. Bunny as well. She did not appear to be too happy about it. … Continue reading “16\/06\/2016”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/la-darnoire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}