The Septic Tank:
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The Septic Tank was replaced by Mike, who had a very natty machine for the job. He was assisted by Kevin who has been around for a while building the road and levelling the yard area - the digger king of West Cork! This being Ireland it turned out that they are first cousins...!
There was horse racing in the village. It sounded as though it would be a bit of a laugh so I walked over. Very disappointing. Mostly kids running three legged, sack and egg and spoon races... couple of bouncy castles, a tea stall. There were actually four horses which were supposed to be racing - but not until later. Very disappointing. As I came out, I met Maddy about to enter - she didn't take a lot of persuading to turn around. She managed to acquire another dog for the weekend - somebody in the village has guests for the weekend so they didn't want it around because it bites people....hello!! Did I miss something here? - True to form the dog has already bitten one of Maddy's guests, oops...
Friday 15/8/03:
The borehole man finally turned up at 5.00pm, left his vehicle and buggered off for the weekend! The rig really is an amazing beast - massive 6-wheel drive ex- British army all terrain job. It had to do a 6 point turn to get into the gate - well, if we had one:
Monday 18/8/03
Bore hole man finally arrived at 16.45, the drilling is not finished: he's at 120 feet, there is water already but to get constant high quality supply he reckons he has to go down another 100 feet or so...
Tuesday:
Borehole man started at the crack of 11.30 - after all, he did promise to be here first thing in the morning. He still hasn't finished drilling - On the bright side, we only need 20ft of steel liner because the rock doesn't or very deep. Things seem to be OK - there certainly seems to be a fair amount of water there - not really sure that he has to go that deep, or how much of what he says is bollocks, er sorry, blarney...
On a brighter note, the Sunsets are still spectacular:
