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Where can I buy water butts?

1. May 2010

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Where can I buy water butts?

Water butts are the best way to collect rainwater so that you have a ready made supply of this wonderful resource when the summer arrives and rainfall decreases.You can buy water butts everywhere now - on line, in garden centres, supermarkets and even garages .There are many different types, shapes and sizes but here are [...]

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Water butt winter

6. February 2010

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Water butt winter

A water butt is an absolute necessity in winter when the rain seems to keep on falling . Such a shame to let it  run down the drain.A staggering 100,000 litres of rainwater falls on the roof of every UK home every year. The best way to maximise rainwater collection into a water butt is to [...]

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Climate and weather

14. July 2009

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Climate and weather

There is an interesting definition about what defines each of these at http://eo.ucar.edu/basics/ Yesterday in London the weather affected my life in an inconvenient way  - the heavens opened as I was driving around the M25 - it was like being in an Indian Monsoon with visibility minimal as the torrential rain just fell in bucket [...]

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