Life with a hosepipe ban
Those of you in sunnier climates might not know that we, in South East England, have been slapped with a hosepipe ban. This effectively means we can't use the hose to wash down the car and must use a bucket etc.
I thought I'd share the situation I've just been caught in.
We are off to The Peaks and North Wales for Easter, to sample the better roads, so today is the last chance I have to clean the car to make it look good for any pictures I can get.
Good news this afternoon was that it started raining, so i made a quick dash to take the car out, to leave it soaking in the rain to soften the grim before I start with the bucket.
You know how it is, you can't resist the odd admiring look out of the window, but on this ocassion I realised that the really grubby bits, the rear arches and lower sides, might not be getting wet enough. So I popped out to remedy the situation.
As if by magic my wife appears and finds me;
standing out in the rain in a T shirt getting soaked . .
with a watering can in my hand . . .
washing down the rear of the car.
When she had stopped laughing at what I was doing, her parting shot was
'Even if you keep on watering it, it won't grow into a GT3'
Great!
I thought I'd share the situation I've just been caught in.
We are off to The Peaks and North Wales for Easter, to sample the better roads, so today is the last chance I have to clean the car to make it look good for any pictures I can get.
Good news this afternoon was that it started raining, so i made a quick dash to take the car out, to leave it soaking in the rain to soften the grim before I start with the bucket.
You know how it is, you can't resist the odd admiring look out of the window, but on this ocassion I realised that the really grubby bits, the rear arches and lower sides, might not be getting wet enough. So I popped out to remedy the situation.
As if by magic my wife appears and finds me;
standing out in the rain in a T shirt getting soaked . .
with a watering can in my hand . . .
washing down the rear of the car.
When she had stopped laughing at what I was doing, her parting shot was
'Even if you keep on watering it, it won't grow into a GT3'
Great!
..
Fritz, I assume the ban on getting your hosepipe out in public also applies to our own 'personal' ones? 
