A diary of my day with just two buckets of water!

Ok, so I bought my buckets. I am not sure it is cheating, but I went for a medium sized bucket, 10 litres... should be a doddle, I don't use much water anyway. Shower in the morning, cup of tea, bottle of water during the day and a coke at lunch. Easy, I should be able to boil some peas and have a bottle of wine with 15 litres to spare!

So the morning comes and oops, I have a hangover. Not a great start, made much worse by the fact that I can't down a pint of water and take a long shower... Why did I choose today? Oh yes, I remember, it is because there are a few days like this. Note to self, as a service to all the readers of this blog I think I should thoroughly research organic wines and beers at some point.

Right, so I have filled my bucket for a wash, and since I am such a loving husband, I have agreed to share it with my lovely wife (as long as I get first go). HORRIBLE!!!!! Water is not too warm and I still feel soapy. My apologies to anyone reading this over breakfast, in fact, the squeamish should probably look away now. Here is a link to some pictures of lovely kittens and stuff.

Anyway, I used up most of the water and what was left was all soapy by now. I am a considerate husband as well as loving.

Next up was tea... There is no way I am missing out on a cup of tea... another 0.75 litres for a couple of cups. I am starting to realise this might be a bit more tricky that I first imagined.

Now, without going into too much detail (click on the kitten link now!!! It is your only hope!) there is a horrible phrase that goes around some environmental circles that no matter how much I try, I simply can't cope with... If it's yellow, let it mellow, if it's brown, flush it down (Clearly not invented by Guinness drinkers then - you can't complain, the link to the kittens is up there). So this is going to be tricky, but to baffle you with a few facts, toilets are MONSTERS when it comes to water consumption. Each flush can use as much as 14 litres of water in old ones, and even a new one will use 4 to 6 litres. I am not going to like this. Again, I made sure I was first in the queue and used the rest of the shower water as a sort of flush. NOT NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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