Travelling On

earthgirl

Hope you enjoyed your evening out?

Enjoy Christmas when it comes!

rtandon27

Have fun at the NT place!

beanielou

Enjoy the NT place

Karmacat

:santa2: Thank you lovely peeps - finished slightly earlier than I thought, but it was truly fantastic, seeing an arts and crafts house with the lighting of the period, mostly (some leds used for safety/highlighting precious objects). It was absolutely gorgeous, and I'm a very happy camper.

badmemory

It isn't just flood plains that are a problem. I worked with someone who lived quite high up but had a field above her house. One day after a lot of rain she got home from work to find a foot of water in her house. The farmer who owned the field had changed its use & configuration & managed to block a culvert off. Just complete lack of thought. We still have roads where water pours down from high up fields, in some cases so bad people put sandbags across their driveways to avoid being flooded. Nature can be quite destuctive enough without us making it worse by building on floodplains.

Karmacat

Wow, thats pretty bad. I had a flood like that myself once upon a time. The house had a semi-basement (one of those with a window peering up through a grille in the pavement, but the hill it was built on was so steep, it went out to level ground at the back. Anyways, the grid up the hill was blocked by builder's rubble, a lot of renovation work going on, there was a rainstorm, and next morning - the window facing the pavement had shattered, and all that water from the street had poured in. My neighbour and I pulled the carpet out, and the loss adjuster wanted to save it, I barked at him to put it down - it was full of broken glass and street debris, including dog dirt ... he put it down awfully quickly :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: I was the only house that got flooded, the steepness of the hill at the side sort of aimed it at my house.

Karmacat

Well, good morning one and all - Christmas Eve, good heavens! Though my house doesn't look at all Christmassy, oops. Still, I might be able to do something about that today - after all, if you take things down on Twelfth Night, they've still been up a good amount of time And thats all I'm doing today, really, doing things that should have been done at the beginning of this month. In the back of my mind is the 20/20 challenge for next year, that will give me a structure to do the things I want to do.

themadvix

Glad you enjoyed the NT event Karma!

Some pretty horrendous flooding stories.... when will 'they' (govt/planners/developers) learn?

On that note....Have a very Merry Christmas!

beanielou

Have a happy Christmas xx

[Deleted User]

Wishing you, Karmacat, and all the lovely people who make this diary such a friendly and supportive place to visit, a memorable Christmas however you choose to spend it:xmassign: