Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

No, mains water. It's been expensive. And a waste of clean drinking water. Next summer won't be so bad with the bore going.

Yep. We will pay excess water next time. *sigh* Sadly nothing will grow without water & we have a lot of garden.

 

[Kris5902]

So here’s a fun one for you all. (Rant coming apologies in advance) We have 600 acres and the water and mineral rights (except for gold, silver, and uranium). We have artesian springs, fully developed by us, water treatment wholly installed and maintained by us, all testing fees for the abbatoir (yo ensure food safety) are fully paid for by us through a private lab. Our municipality now wants to charge us for our water usage without providing anything in return...

Why? because we have water, and having water isn’t really a right, even if it’s on your own land and the government has NOTHING to do with its collection, purification or storage. And we are on a completely separate water table from the municipality supplied water. So luckily, we haven’t been on a boil water advisory, like 80+% of the island, for more than 10 months running (well they did lift it for 3 days, so it hasn’t really been 10 consecutive months!). And they want to charge us more than what I was paying in the city for water, sewage, and garbage and recycling services, just for using our own water! BS!

 

[Ribh]

So here’s a fun one for you all. (Rant coming apologies in advance) We have 600 acres and the water and mineral rights (except for gold, silver, and uranium). We have artesian springs, fully developed by us, water treatment wholly installed and maintained by us, all testing fees for the abbatoir (yo ensure food safety) are fully paid for by us through a private lab. Our municipality now wants to charge us for our water usage without providing anything in return...

Why? because we have water, and having water isn’t really a right, even if it’s on your own land and the government has NOTHING to do with its collection, purification or storage. And we are on a completely separate water table from the municipality supplied water. So luckily, we haven’t been on a boil water advisory, like 80+% of the island, for more than 10 months running (well they did lift it for 3 days, so it hasn’t really been 10 consecutive months!). And they want to charge us more than what I was paying in the city for water, sewage, and garbage and recycling services, just for using our own water! BS!

You are preaching to the choir sister. We pay [on all the islands] more for non existent, or minimal services, than they do on the mainland. It's not just unsealed roads, it's untravellable roads ~ yet we contribute to transport costs . They want to charge a fortune for mainland parking yet neither cap our population @ a reasonable level, provide adequate parking both on the islands & on the mainland, or provide really good public transport. We have NO island public transport. We have an inground pool, which charges like a wounded bull & which was paid for in a large part by islanders yet because it isn't used a lot & insurance is phenomenal[see cost factor] it is closed more than it is open, even in summer. We are levied for electricity yet pylons across the islands shorten distances between generators...It goes on & on. We were on tanks & bores when we moved here & were charged for water we had no access to! Oh, & because we have waterfront...

 

[WhoDatChick]

So here’s a fun one for you all. (Rant coming apologies in advance) We have 600 acres and the water and mineral rights (except for gold, silver, and uranium). We have artesian springs, fully developed by us, water treatment wholly installed and maintained by us, all testing fees for the abbatoir (yo ensure food safety) are fully paid for by us through a private lab. Our municipality now wants to charge us for our water usage without providing anything in return...

Why? because we have water, and having water isn’t really a right, even if it’s on your own land and the government has NOTHING to do with its collection, purification or storage. And we are on a completely separate water table from the municipality supplied water. So luckily, we haven’t been on a boil water advisory, like 80+% of the island, for more than 10 months running (well they did lift it for 3 days, so it hasn’t really been 10 consecutive months!). And they want to charge us more than what I was paying in the city for water, sewage, and garbage and recycling services, just for using our own water! BS!

600 acres!!?? .... wow!!!! It really stinks as to how unfair that is! And how they get away with it..

 

[Kris5902]

Yes... when I got to drive our windows up from the vineyard where they were unloaded (most nerve wracking drive I’ve performed yet!) I was made acutely aware of just how bad the publicly maintained road between there and the farm is. Our dirt driveway... all 3+ kms of it is in better shape! We are the only thing on that road spur though, so it’s a “low priority”, oh and there is literally no one we can complain to about it.

Realities of island living... transportation costs are astronomical, services are near non existent, and your pub thinks they can charge Triple for everything and then wonders why they have no business! We have 300 permanent residents here, the feral goats quite literllay outnumber the people. Granted there are the views and the quiet.

 

[Ribh]

We have 300 permanent residents here, the feral goats quite literllay outnumber the people. Granted there are the views and the quiet.

The views & the quiet make up for quite a lot. Our council I could do without, thank you very much, & don't get me started on fuel prices! I topped up our island car when I picked up our new chickens. Cost me half what I would pay on the island & it will last me over a month.

 

[Kris5902]

The views & the quiet make up for quite a lot. Our council I could do without, thank you very much, & don't get me started on fuel prices! I topped up our island car when I picked up our new chickens. Cost me half what I would pay on the island & it will last me over a month.

Same the world over I suppose... there are some people here who refuse to buy any fuel on island, they will roll onto the ferry running on fumes and take a trip to town just to avoid buying on island! We try to rotate the vehicles we take when we have town days so we can fill up, but all our generator gas has to be bought in island because you’re only allowed one gas can per trip on the ferry!

 

[Ribh]

I think I am turning into a helicopter chicken mum. I don't like the fighting while the new pecking order sorts itself out & I have 2 quite tiny hens in amongst the flock now ~ not that I'm worried about Pebbles. She has enough sass to out bomb a nuclear infusion. Lottie is another matter ~ & surprisingly Lavender.

Roosting. We have heaps of space even given most of my girls are on the plus size but Lavender has been having trouble. She can get up ~ but only if no~one else is round jostling her. Once up she is loath to move @ all ~ which would have been ok only last night, Nugget, my head honcho, decided it was time to shuffle everybody along the roost so newbies & oldies were all cuddled up together. This is a good thing, only I had popped Lottie under Lavender who was getting pecked by Hepzibah, who was less than enamoured of being shoved up against the fluffball. Lavender was stepping all over Lottie so I pulled Lottie out of the fray while the big girls sorted out their differences . Lottie put her head inside my jersey & I thought she was going to rest there but the next thing I knew she'd disappeared under my armpit & was scrabbling up my back. I had to get John to fish her out. Interesting. He doesn't normally handle the chickens so there was a lot of wing flapping. I popped her back between Lavender & Patricia, who are big girls, because otherwise she roosts alone & I don't think that's healthy, especially as it starts getting colder.

 

[Ribh]

Same the world over I suppose... there are some people here who refuse to buy any fuel on island, they will roll onto the ferry running on fumes and take a trip to town just to avoid buying on island! We try to rotate the vehicles we take when we have town days so we can fill up, but all our generator gas has to be bought in island because you’re only allowed one gas can per trip on the ferry!

Yep. People here lug jerry cans to & from the mainland just so they don't have to buy island fuel but honestly, what you expend in time & hassel, it isn't worth it. Ditto cartons of beer but I had to do it when we still used the little boats & for me, a few extra dollars to not have to cart stuff is worth it. The number of yoghurt cartons I had to ditch because they came undone on the boats!

 

[MaryJanet]

I think I am turning into a helicopter chicken mum. I don't like the fighting while the new pecking order sorts itself out & I have 2 quite tiny hens in amongst the flock now ~ not that I'm worried about Pebbles. She has enough sass to out bomb a nuclear infusion. Lottie is another matter ~ & surprisingly Lavender.

Roosting. We have heaps of space even given most of my girls are on the plus size but Lavender has been having trouble. She can get up ~ but only if no~one else is round jostling her. Once up she is loath to move @ all ~ which would have been ok only last night, Nugget, my head honcho, decided it was time to shuffle everybody along the roost so newbies & oldies were all cuddled up together. This is a good thing, only I had popped Lottie under Lavender who was getting pecked by Hepzibah, who was less than enamoured of being shoved up against the fluffball. Lavender was stepping all over Lottie so I pulled Lottie out of the fray while the big girls sorted out their differences . Lottie put her head inside my jersey & I thought she was going to rest there but the next thing I knew she'd disappeared under my armpit & was scrabbling up my back. I had to get John to fish her out. Interesting. He doesn't normally handle the chickens so there was a lot of wing flapping. I popped her back between Lavender & Patricia, who are big girls, because otherwise she roots alone & I don't think that's healthy, especially as it starts getting colder.

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I would be the same. They should settle down soon, surely. Poor Lottie.