While we were in the UK there was a bit of a disaster!! The meter for the water and the ancient water pipe linking the Barn to the mains water supply in the road burst and our new cellar ended up with about three feet of water in it. What a nightmare to come home to!!

Anyway, water soon drained away and the boys managed to clear up all the mess with sawdust and time. I should add here that in due the cellar will be properly 'tanked' and sealed and will in future bad weather not enable water to seep through even if there is a broken pipe.

We knew that we were going to have to pay for the meter to moved to outside the front of the barn (so the meter can be read for billing purposes!) and that the local commune would have to replace the old pipe at the same time. But it appears that since the bursts were actually on the meter and caused by the weakness of the old pipe this work has now been done and will be paid for by the commune - so luck is really on our side sometimes!!