I put in a few hours of Gardening and felt very satisfied with my work. I have a couple of water butts and use them with watering cans a lot of the time but this evening it was going to be much easier just to use the hose with a light mist from the thing I call a wand.
Plastic connectors are wonderful, and I shouldn’t complain - but then if I weren’t going to complain, I wouldn’t be writing this. I connected the hose to the tap and the wand to the other end of the hose. The minute I turned the water on the wand came off the hose! So, I trotted back to the tap, turned the water off and reconnected the wand. Then back to the tap (there’s a good reason why I don’t take the one near to the tap, in case you’re wondering) and this time when I turn the tap on the host disconnected itself from the tap. Tried again, and some water made it as far as the wand so I started watering. This time it disconnected in my hands and I got soaked. It has happened many, many times before but tonight I’m soaked, my back hurts, I’m tired, I’m hungry and did I mention that I’m soaked.
I used to be perfectly happy with Jubilee clips. Okay, the screws rusted every now and then, but at least I didn’t get soaked.
However … The watering cans are all filled ready for tomorrow, I have a wee dram in front of me and I’ve had my rant. Onwards and upwards.
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Absolutely maddening! But, not happening to me now - I got one of these, and it actually works!
Azalea99 - I struggled lifting full watering cans out of my water butts until I bought a battery operated water pump. This hooks onto the top edge of the water butt, one tube drops into the water butt to syphon out the water and another tube connects to my hose pipe. It has made light work if watering the garden but has especially come I to it's is. At the allotment. It was bought from a well known D.I.Y store but are easily available on Amazon etc.
I know you just ordered other parts but the pump is a game changer.
This has brightened my day. Yesterday evening I used, for the first time, the super duper all bells and whistles extendable hose with about 8 different nozzle settings my gardener got for me and connected up. It was quite expensive.
I looked at all the nozzle settings and decided to try them all, one by one. What fun, I thought. When I got to the setting marked "shower" I clearly failed to recognise that it meant I would be getting a shower, not the garden. 
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