Fair questions, Doug. Our previous place had 2 water tanks and we installed
2 more, giving us access to up to 100,000 litres of water. We never ran out
but ran low in summer. Only 2 of us. Others, esp with live-in families had
to buy water in, a very expensive business. Here, in the Daylesford region,
unfortunately, we don’t have tanks, the block is very steep. So we use town
water and will get a doozy of a water bill. Next year we think we might
explore sending down a bore. Sometimes such waer can be too salty and
damage plants but this is mineral water country so it might be OK.
Thanks for your support,
Bill
On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 3:33 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
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> I like it, Bill, but think about the stories of drought in Oz & wonder how
> much you can afford to water.
>
> That ‘dangle’ did make we wonder about something else.
>
> Still, the repetition of the form catches the repetition of the act as you
> try to save your garden…
>
> Doug
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> > On Jan 23, 2019, at 4:18 AM, Patrick McManus <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > no comment! but better than droop!
> >
> > On 23/01/2019 10:08, Bill Wootton wrote:
> >> WelI , I did change it from ‘fondle’, Patrick.
> >>
> >> Bill
> >>
> >> On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 at 8:14 pm, Patrick McManus <
> >> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> >>> Hi Bill what fun -but I of course got a bit caught up about dangling my
> >>> hose in the garden (esp if neighbours about!) but then I am a rather
> >>> crude person being a poetperson
> >>>
> >>> On 22/01/2019 23:54, Sheila Murphy wrote:
> >>>> There are many attractive features to this poem, Bill, and I
> appreciate
> >>>> your use of the form. What you are saying makes the greatest sense to
> me.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 4:38 PM Bill Wootton <
> [log in to unmask]>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> It’s bloody hot round our region at the moment. 26-41 on Friday
> >>> predicted
> >>>>> and we have only had 4 mm of rain in the last month. Hence the
> following
> >>>>> villanelle.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Summer’s the time to dangle your hose.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Stand in the shade and let it pour out.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Planting is poetry; watering prose.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Beat back the dryness. Soak on. Interpose.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> You’re all that stands between lushness and drought.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Summer’s the time to dangle your hose.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Commune with magpies and kookas and crows.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Swat wasps and mosquitoes - keep moving about.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Planting is poetry; watering prose.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> You don’t need to think, the job’s H20’s.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Be still for a while, be whisper, not shout.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Summer’s the time to dangle your hose.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The task is a matter of pauses and flows.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Some plants you can trust, some leave you in doubt.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Planting is poetry, watering prose.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Douse that magnolia you carefully chose.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Celebrate wins - cheer each small green sprout.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Summer’s the time to dangle your hose.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Planting is poetry; watering prose.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
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> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations
> 2 (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> Listen. If (UofAPress):
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> colder inside the building than out. He wondered how they did that, if it
> was a British building secret.
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