Water we can turn off

I would never have thought one could get so excited by a stop tap.  Now we can turn our water supply off without having to trek up the road or across the fields. Unfortunately after so much dry weather the afternoon had torrential rain and Jamie and John got soaked. The ground at the front of the house is also now very muddy but we can't complain as we've been so lucky up until now. Inside the house today it's felt cold and dark. The poor conservation officer from the planning department turned up in the midst of all this chaos!