… and there I was, downstairs working. And that’s not like me at all these days is it?
But I want to have this perishing beichstuhl finished sometime soon, like tomorrow for example, and it needs a coat of varnish on the underside and another coat on the top. And this varnish isn’t like the stuff that I normally buy that is ready for a second coat in 2 hours – this needs 24 hours.
So what I did first thing this morning was to put a coat of varnish on the underside of the worktop, and the second coat on the upper side last thing before knocking off. That should be dry enough tomorrow to install. Then I can crack on with the plasterboarding. And I mustn’t forget the locating peg on the lunette either.
In between times I finished off the additional notes for the next radio programmes and caught up with a couple of outstanding things that needed to be done.
We also had a most astonishing thunderstorm – 25mm of rain fell in about an hour and we had the most impressive thunder and lightning – an enormous one going off with an enormous crack right overhead here.
I didn’t get any of that (well I did – about a ton of it all over me) because the water filter had become blocked. So there I was in the middle of this rainstorm dismantling the entire system, removing the home-made filters and cleaning and renewing them. They were blocked too, and that’s happened since the last rainstorm. Probably all of the dust that had settled during the last week when we have had no rain at all.
I said that I had about a ton of water all over me. I had to dissemble the pipe between the two filters and the water that was stuck in the pipe came out with such a force, right over me and I got the lot.
Of course, by the time that I had rebuilt all of the filters the rain had stopped. That’s about normal, isn’t it? But I keep on meaning to build a spare filter system so that I can just swap them over and clean them off at my leisure. They always need cleaning or replacing at the most inopportune moments.
And we’ve had high winds all day too and the wind turbine has been going round like the clappers. I wish that it would do that every day.
