That sounds very plausible, and reassuring of my belief it did not freeze. But why did it suddenly come back? I did turn the road stopcock off and on but that was 3 hours before it came back. Would it have taken that time from being turned off and on for it to pass water again?
This is something I intend to check, but coming on at 9pm after 8 days being off, and checking in the street to verify no-one working nearby at the time it came back led me to conclude this as being unlikely.
We were without water incoming for over 8 days. Welsh Water confirmed all OK in the road up to our stopcock and attributed it to frozen pipes under our garden. The gauge on our pressure reducing valve (PRV) immediately after our stop tap under the sink was showing zero, not surprisingly, and the...