You know how some things change when you get older?
For instance, I used to dislike olives as a teen but in my 30's, I discovered that they are, in fact, delicious!
And, I was really not fond of vegetable soups and stews as a child, but from my 20's, loved them.
Now that I own my own garden and have water butts, every time it rains, especially in the Summer, or it looks imminent, I am cheering the rain on! "COME ON!!! Fill the waterbutts!"
I gleefully text my Mum (noting she has done the same reciprocally) saying, "Freee water!" and "Yay, don't have to water tonight!" and we both gleefully compare waterbutt quotas. And, when you discover that accidentally, you have left the waterbutt tap ON (because it had emptied and you can't quite remember what the 'OFF' position is when there is water to show you), and after a night of rain, you have missed the opportunity of a free 100l of water- it is quite simply, the worst thing and you feel wracked with guilt towards your poor garden!
And there, I find myself, dressed in my nightie and bare feet with a cursory raincoat thrown over the top, out in the pouring rain, filling up buckets from the connected waterbutt to the unconnected one, getting absolutely soaked in the process, to maximize on the rainfall!
You know you've grown up.
You know you've turned into your Mother!!!
