Marmalade says: “You’ll never guess what’s happening behind me…
…it’s been going on for over a week now–a man has been digging a hole in the meadow behind the house–and the hole has got bigger and bigger!–what’s going to happen when a cow falls in it?”
Enough of that–Marmalade can be over-anxious sometimes!
Here’s the story…
The work is being carried out, not because we had a tip off about where to find the lost treasure of St Martin–although we’ve fantasised about its existence for twenty years–but sadly for less romantic reasons.
There is a new drive to implement a European directive on the subject of septic tanks and we’ve heard the inspectors are out and about and keen.
We have insufficient space at the back of the house to carry out the work as the regulations require; so have had to ask our neighbours, Alice and René, if they’d mind us digging what looks like an olympic swimming pool size hole in their meadow!
They kindly agreed for us to go ahead–sight unseen.
Thinking big!
The “EU Waste Framework Directive“–attempts to ensure that waste is disposed of without endangering human health or harming the environment. It was passed in 1975 and aimed at turning the EU into a recycling society.
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We are doing our bit.
Robin Ellis 