Broken Glass

When my elderly neighbours, Peg and Tom Murray passed away a number of years ago I came to be a Rainfall Observer for Met Eireann. I used take the rainfall measurements for them when they were away for a few days and Peg would thank me with a loaf of brown bread, which she would bake herself and deliver personally to our front door. I now measure the rain that has fallen in my own garden, each morning at 0900 hrs G.M.T. It is necessary to adhere to this standard hour of observation in order that readings made at hundreds of places throughout the country may be compared with each other and, indeed, with stations all over the world.
I started taking the daily readings here in Emyvale, Co. Monaghan 0n 8th. August 1996. The highest rainfall I have measured for one day was 47.4 mm. That was on 19th. August 2009.
One morning I dropped the Rain Measuring Glass and it broke into several pieces. The trinket below is a small section of the glass tube.