How to smell of roses . . . even in a drought

AFTER a two-week holiday, my family drove from Cornwall back home to Maidstone in kent.

On the journey we saw how bad the drought conditions were, with so many gardens and fields turned brown. When we got home, every garden in the street was the same sad sight — except for one.

Our lawn was green and needed mowing, the flowers a mass of blooms and the vegetable patch flourishing. a few days later, an inspector from our water supplier called and saw our healthy looking garden.

He thought we had been ‘illegally’ watering the lawn and said we’d be taken to court for breaking the hosepipe ban. at this point, we told him to smell the grass.

We then showed him a 40-gallon drum that collected all our bath water, which was then distributed over the garden. not only did we have flourishing lawns and veg, but everything was smelling of roses!