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I thought perhaps you were using the Hungarian/English translation dictionary.
You know “My hovercraft is full of eels!”

Pressure – yes, that’s why Metro Texas sprouts water towers like a fairy toadstool ring as the population grows. You pump the water into the towers during low demand so that everyone can have pressure when they get up and shower in the morning before they dash off to work.

I used to imagine they were some sort of secret government plan to ring the cities with AA batteries like the Flakturme the Krauts put up in major cities (and are still mostly there, though, I’m told, as apartment buildings).
You know, the top folds open and pew pew pew! (which people don’t seem to understand falls on everything below whether it hits what it’s aimed at or not…)

But no, just water towers so we can have sufficient pressure for all the latest flush of Yankees fleeing their dirtied nests so they can dirty ours.

I rather enjoyed the bees comment because you always come up with entertaining, and true, stories.

eh? NOBODY had Tony Bennett? wow.

Can you…can you not PUT a lid on it? You’re not catching rainwater in the attic, I would hope.

I mean, I live in the desert, so I’m always thinking “What if I had to =drink= that?” Maybe that’s not a problem for you moisties.

The thing above is a water storage tank and, until recently, most British homes had one in the attic.

What changed?

I’m not sure, Uncle Al. You can still have tanks fitted, but I think most new builds are mains. I got that from the little Googling around I did for this.

I’d love to put a lid on it. Put it on the list, I guess. I’ve never gone up there, but I have aimed my camera in the hatch and taken some flash pictures. The bee hive is not as big as I feared.

I very nearly titled this one “my hovercraft is full of eels.”

We’ve heard some water tank horror stories from the plumber. The one that sticks in my head was the tank that stopped working and when they checked on it IT WAS ENTIRELY FILLED WITH SLUGS.

AIIIIIIII!!!!

Well, okay then. Gin for ME please.

I would have the Mr or the Son go up with a new tarp and some duct tape and cover it if it was my tank. But I’m fancy like that.

I was reading this to my daughter, and we were both laughing, when she came up with an idea. Granting that dealing with bees, with the proper precautions, does not bother us. Our family kept bees for a few years. Granting that since your house is old and if done openly may require some sort of historical architecture permit, but the simplest way to bee-proof the tank would be to go to a hardware store and get some nylon or metal window screen cloth, and put it over the top of the tub with just a few clamps to hold it there.

I know that neither you nor Uncle B are of an age where attic crawling is a preferred sport [and believe me, I am not of any age/condition to do it either] but if you quietly put out the word, y’all might find an amateur beekeeper who would both have the suit and do it for you. Or just some younger friend/neighbor who is not afraid of bees.

Subotai Bahadur

Hey! That’s me! hehehehehe

Low water pressure or inconsistent water service – ayup, that’s what we have here in the Philippines. So I insisted on putting a 1000 litre water tank on the second floor when we built our current home – no attic to stash it, nor a flat roof area.

However, ours is a stainless steel barrel that is fully enclosed, with a small hatch for access that is about 18″ wide. It works well – not firehose water pressure, but good enough, and when the service goes out completely we still have water.

I couldn’t imagine having a tank with no lid. Ugh. We just did our 2-year clean of the water system and I did a wash and disinfect of the tank. Gross. Brown slimey stuff all around the perimeter of the tank. Ooze dripping out of the nozzle of the float valve. Lots of chlorine bleach was used during the cleaning.

BTW: is your tank plastic? Really? You would think it would age poorly, what with the water and then the hot and cold extremes in the attic. What happens if it decides to leak, or – worse yet – burst?

If you ever do decide to clean your tank, please take pictures.

I’ve never heard of one bursting. We did have corrosion in one of the pipes one year. It caused a leak so slow that we wondered if the wet spot on the ceiling was a figment of our collective imagination.

I made a lid for the water tank in my attic – just a plywood board with a sheet of polythene stapled to the underside. It’s been there for more than 20 years. I peer into the tank about once a year but there has never been anything untoward.

Oh, and when I say Gin for me please, I feel the need to specify that I don’t mean a slug of Gin, okay?

@Some Vegetable: think of it like Boba tea, you know, with the chewy bits.

only Tim Carlson wondered how my toilet inlet pipe might have become full of bees.

I wondered too, but I figured it was just too sophisticated for the likes. Bees? But of course, old chap. How else would the water get to the toilet?

House selling feature – “privy bowl fills with natural flowing golden honey water (and bee bits) before each use.”

It’s very very you know! Only the best. Bet they don’t have that in Frogmore cottage!

Okay, we’ll edit the bee bits out in the advert.

Oh! If you put in a skylight…you could fill the tank with tea leaves and make sun tea, right from the tap!

See, Sunday, full of good ideas!

Throw in a little yeast, some hops, and you could make bee. r.