This morning I was up and about fairly early and after breakfast I had the usual couple of hours on the website.
When I went outside I started to rebuild the 12-volt immersion heater. I had a couple of attempts at fitting the element before I was satisfied, and then I made up some electric cables out of a jump lead (the red one) and a starter cable (the black one). Once I’d done that, i added another pile of insulation to it and sealed it all in. It’s now all fitted, wired in and working properly.
As an added attraction, I’ve removed the warning light and that’s now fitted into the fascia panel of the socket that’s wired into the excess charge circuit.
This afternoon I was up on the scaffolding ripping off the ivy from the back wall of the house, and it’s all gone now, which is just as well as there was quite a lot and it was stuck fast.
I cleaned off under the eaves too and then spent a pleasant hour looking for tools. Once I had found everything that I was seeking, I charged up the cement mixer with some sand and lime mortar, enough to make two buckets full.
Up on the scaffolding, I started to spread this about over the rubble with which we had infilled between the chevrons. There were some enormous gaps in there which are all infilled now – at least, most of them because I ran out of mortar. Mind you, it was 19:20 and so I’ll mix up another bucket or two and finish it off tomorrow.
This evening I made one of my kidney bean and aubergine whatsits – enough to last me three or four days. I don’t want to spend the rest of the week cooking.
