Does outside of the house count

Late Saturday arvo I took some stuff out to the bin & there was a wet patch on the path near the front tap. Thought the tap couldn't have been turned off properly, so the hose has dribbled, gave the tap handle a twist & didn't think any more about it.

Sunday arvo, Leafz comes rushing in after doing the same thing, to say there's water running out of the wall! Have a look & yep, there's water apparently coming out of the base of the tap, where it joins the actual pipe inside the brick wall, then running down the wall & dribbling out the weep holes! Not hard though - only ~1l/5 minutes. Turned the water off at the meter to stop it as we don't know what it's doing down inside the wall (Van water tanks were still full from Alfred though, so we've got lots available )

Got on to our usual plumber first thing Monday morning but he's in Coffs atm, cleaning out a house after his Dad died a little while ago He'll be back up on Wednesday & will come out then, but also said that that small an amount wouldn't be enough to do any damage over the next few days

Decided that we'd take a brick out from around the the tap, as he'd need to get in there anyway, & found the problem! #1

But having a closer look, it shows a very interesting example of work from ~44 years ago! #2
Now, I'm not a plumber, but I don't think copper pipe is supposed to be kinked like that! Probably explains why we've never had decent water pressure in that tap, from the day we moved in here!

Mildura for three nights !

Nice region... so much you can see and do around there

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At the going down of the sun,
And in the morning,
We will remember them.

Lest We Forget.

Na. No Scarps.
This was the All Aussie Adventures - Where's the bloody track

I find that quite easy to believe....