Water water everywhere so do I give up!

I am sitting quietly in a classroom writing this. The child/children I am supposed to be teaching know I am here as one came and put their bag in the room and then wondered off, but today I cannot be bothered to go and get them. Let them do their own thing.


And the reason for this revolt.

Well had I had access to the internet yesterday this is one of the things I would have written.

For the last few days I have been trying to keep the hugelkultur going, so every morning packing a bag of wood shavings an bringing them up and in the afternoon doing other work with leaves and digging in the wood. For some days I have noticed a couple of the rows have been watered but the row I have been working on has not. I think I have some dead trees, but wondered if watering would help.
One of the brilliant things here are the irrigation ditches all around the village, and I realised one of these ditches reached a couple of the rows and that was what was watering them. So yesterday morning I dug a small channel to my hugelkultur row, no too big to overwhelm the ditch not so small as to be a trickle as my understanding is that plants should be well watered but not drenched.   When I came back in the afternoon the source of water to the rows had increased enormously and a couple of the rows had water rushing through them, some had spilt over where there were blockages and were watering the whole field, my hugel row some of the water had come down the row, some had spilled over where the hugel mound of wood had got in the way. So I tried to create some water channels to the next row which had no water and I reduced the flow of water into some of the rows and blocked some of the channels to reduce the flow. The water flowing off all the rows was beginning to flood the newly created football pitch. So my thinking was hmmm not sure about this how to manage this now with the wood I have put in the ditches. Clearly they are not the only thing causing a problem and indeed by stemming the tide they may be being useful, but will the water manage to get through them to the end of the row. It will be interesting to see what happens, but I will write on facebook and on my blog and see if anyone can advise how to manage this situation. But there was no internet even with my dongle I could not get anywhere.

I left yesterday about 6 having sorted all this out. Today I come with my usual bag of wood only to find that someone has dug out half the wood from the ditches. I give up. Not only was that a lot of work for them,b ut it undermines all my work and it totally negates the point of an ecological experiment. Do I ask my head why they have done it, or do I just give up. To upset to care at the moment.