MN, can we have a new topic called The Drought?

[LittenTree]

...Where we can post ideas and moan about the implications?!

I have a question:

How do I get water out of my upstairs bathroom up over the sill and start the siphon action? DH and I experimented last night- he did something he used to do years ago back in Oz where you repeatedly plunge the hose up and down under water to build up a column of water which gets high enough to tip over the edge BUT he used to use 3-4m lengths of wide irrigation pipe, plunging up to a meter in and out of the water trough whereas we had a little garden hose and about 10cm to play with! He then tried filling the hose from the tap and plunging it into the bath (and suggesting I suck the other end!- I pointed out there was way more air capacity in the hose than my lung capacity!)... anyway, we eventually succeeded in getting the flow going but I don't have 25 mins a night to run 150 litres of water out of a bath and DH had to hold the end in the bottom of the bath all that time...

What I need is some sort of convenient pump, don't I? If only to start the flow going.

Any ideas?

www.nigelsecostore.com water siphon pump. It's about £20 and seems to be what you are looking for.

No.

No new topics.

Why's that, trills? Do we still have 'Swine Flu', for instance?!

I think it's a good diea, especially for those being affected by it. Or, a sticky in gardening maybe for drought questions?

Tidying up of topics that don't get used or could be merged into one, yes.

Until then, no new topics please.

You'll use it once then complain that it has no traffic and post in AIBU anyway.

No, I never go to AIBU!

Hello. We're going to move this thread to Site Stuff, as there's where it really belongs.

Easy, remove AIBU, have Drought instead.

and one for the CB cuts please

Can we have a new topic called "I don't know where this goes please move it to the appropriate place MNHQ"?

Or call the drought one: "Catastrophic Effects of Global Weirding and its Impact on our Domestic Lives".

Yes, it's like the Hand of God when a thread moves.

Spoooooky!

Agree with trills. Nobody will use it anyway.

It'd just dry up.

Agree with MNTrills (it seems). Or you could label it to 'local' MNs - we have bucketfuls of water in the North and Midlands.

@FruitShootsAndHeaves

Can we have a new topic called "I don't know where this goes please move it to the appropriate place MNHQ"?

No

Well, there is the Weather topic - which is more-or-less relevant, because if we were currently having Proper British Weather we'd all be wearing macs and wellies.

Can we have a "stop boasting about your sodding drought as its not stopped raining up here since 2006" topic?

Can we have a new topic called "I don't know where this goes please move it to the appropriate place MNHQ"?

We already have a topic called " I don't care where this goes I'm just going to stick it in AIBU"