Hot Dog….

A morning of this and that then after lunch headed off up to the hill . We have been having bother with the water supply from the spring that feeds all the lower fields. The pipe was put in in the early 1960s I think , with black alkathene and brass couplings. These couplings are now starting to fail and we have had various leaks over the last few years. This time though I’m having a hard time finding the leak. It is 2.7 Km from the tank to the last water trough so it’s not easy. I thought I’d be smart and got a metal detector thinking I could locate the brass joints, but the grass was too high and the pipe too deep to pick them up. It did however manage to pick up the steel toe caps in my wellies every time I moved. Even tried walking through the heather in my socks but that didn’t work either !
The only thing that had any luck were the clegs ( horse flies) which were having great time biting me.
So will need to have another think as there isn’t even much water coming down any of the burns in the fields I could have usually swapped the cows into.
At least the dogs enjoyed their run on the hill for the afternoon
The joys ….