Sentences with phrase «catching water showers»

At Casa Asia we strive to do our best not to aggravate this situation by trying to get a rational use of water, using a system of rainwater harvesting, catching water showers to water the plants, making separate refuse / trash collections and trying to limit the use of polluting detergents.

Not exact matches

I put a bucket in the shower to catch water while the shower heated up and while I was showering.

Aside from taking advantage of all the splashing good fun the water parks have to offer, during the winter months kids will enjoy visits from Santa, experience indoor «snow» showers, catch shows and have opportunities to participate in holiday crafts.

Sometimes I am too tired to catch the shower warm up water, make a meal from scratch or search 17 thrift stores for the perfect black work skirt when I know the Gap at the corner has one on sale and in my size.

a water resistent hood would make a big difference as you can't always have the cover on you when out and you will get caught in a shower the rear facing seat is not sturdy and looks cheap and uncomfortable when compared with other brands.

Training at a gym is very convenient in terms of equipment and space available but travelling to the gym, getting caught up in locker - room chit - chat, doing your workout — punctuated by more conversations over the water fountain, showering, and then driving home all take up very valuable time.

During this time of severe water shortages, we ask all guests to have as quick a shower as possible, so as to save this precious commodity - each shower is supplied with a bucket to catch the shower water.

I catch rain water for showers, the toilet naturally composts, and you can grow your own produce,» he says.

The garden is still running off water caught in a bucket while warming the shower, and I was able to reuse most of my already reused containers.

They put buckets on the floor of the shower to catch the water to use for other purposes, like washing hair, flushing toilets, and shaving legs, although they say this happens much less, too.

The Moto G4 is water - resistant, but that doesn't mean you can go dunking it in the bath or taking it for a swim — it just means that if you splash liquid on your phone, or get caught in shower with it, it shouldn't break down.

It's also water - resistant enough to handle getting caught in the rain — though Fitbit discourages customers from showering with it.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.