Apologies for the tardy updates; I do, however, have an excuse and it involves moving house for the third time in 18 months. Hopefully only one more move to go! Away from the chaos of bubble wrap, packing tape and recycled Amazon boxes, the Barn Boys have been dodging the rain and getting on.
The Klargester sewage treatment plant is working and I mean working. 'Waste matter' goes into the larger of the disc-like sections, before entering the second set of rotating discs, where it sjhuses 'it' about breaking it down, to the point of allegedly being able to drink it!
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| Klargester up and running |
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| The inner workings |
The clean, waste water will then take a short journey, in the newly laid pipes, to the ditch, leading to the stream, the Kent river (dividing Kent and East Sussex) and beyond. Gotta love the temporary, anti-vermin netting at the end of the pipe. Building inspector requested it.
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| Mice, rats, voles - not welcome here |
Please admire my en suite bathroom plug. The Barn Boys spent half a day digging through several metres of soil and sandstone to reach a suitable point, at which they could take the drain out to the manhole, to join the main drain on the West side.
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| My Bathroom Plug |
The barn's overcoat of cladding removed and made ready for a fire. Strange beauty in a pile of ageing timber.
A stunning mackerel sky* cast a warm, golden light on the bare timbers. But what does it mean?
"Mackerel in the sky, three days dry," "Mackerel sky, mackerel sky. Never long wet and never long dry," and the nautical weather rhyme, "Mare's tails and mackerel scales / Make tall ships carry low sails."
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| Mackerel Sky* |
Must dash, BarnGirl needs to sort pics and add the latest goings on.....scaffolding going up and foundations coming down. Eek!
Love
BarnGirl
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If you're interested......
*The phrase mackerel sky came from the fact that it looks similar to the markings of an adult king mackerel.
A mackerel sky or buttermilk sky describes a sky mostly covered by altocumulus clouds. It is rare with altocumulus and extremely rare in its cirrocumulus form. The occurrence of these clouds is an indicator of moisture and instability at intermediate levels (2400–6100 m, 8000-20,000 ft). Rainshowers or thunderstorms may occur should any lower cumulus clouds reach the layer of the altocumulus form.
However, the most common reason for the occurrence of a mackerel sky is an old, disintegrating frontal system. The cloud was probably originally altostratus and has been broken up into altocumulus as the weather front disintegrates (usually as a result of encountering an area of high atmospheric pressure). Little, if any rain most often follows a mackerel sky. Another common place that it is found is in the warm sector of a depression preceding the cold front and associated showery weather, however usually here it is obscured by lower stratus clouds.
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