The Friday Five on a Sunday, and the promise of snow

[nanila]

1. Do you mostly drink tap, filtered, or bottled water?
   
   Tap water. I drink bottled water if I forget my refillable bottle, which isn’t very often.
   
   
2. Is it safe/recommended to drink tap water where you live? If not, why?
   
   Yes, it is safe to drink the tap water here. It’s pretty soft water as well.
   
   
3. What does the tap water taste/smell like where you live?
   
   Nothing, which is how it should be!
   
   
4. Do you collect rainwater? If so, what do you use it for?
   
   Yes, we have a water butt in the back garden. We use it to water Keiki’s collection of carnivorous plants all year round, and for the indoor plants in summer.
   
   
5. Do you/have you ever had restrictions on water use where you live? What did you have to change about your lifestyle?
   
   We haven’t had water restrictions here, even when a lot of the rest of the country did last summer. I have lived in places with water restrictions previously (southern California). It taught me to have short showers and/or turn off the water when, say, shampooing or conditioning my hair, which I think are generally good habits anyway. Dishwasher appliances also use less water than hand-washing dishes, which took me a while to accept but once I did, that also reduced my water consumption.
   

In other news, it has got quite cold here, by UK standards. Scraping off the car in the morning and ice on the roads is what defines "quite cold" here. Those, and the eternal promise of "significant" snowfall. Certainly there has been in a number of places, some of which are a handful of miles from my location, but the photo below shows the extent of the snowfall we have experienced to date!

Comments

[lilly_c]

I've posted some snow photos, we're getting hammered by it in Aberdeenshire.

[nanila]

You really are! Hope you're keeping warm.

[cmcmck]

We had another couple of inches today.

[nanila]

Still very little here. We are promised more tonight - we'll see!

[davidgillon]

Despite being less than 10 miles from the snowiest place in England (Copley, 53 snow days/year), we've had nothing more than a few pellets so far. Ironically it has snowed in Kent where I normally live. Tomorrow's forecast looks promising.