Yes, I was in bed by 01:00, just for a change. And so I was up at a reasonable time, fighting fit.
I’ve now reached the other side of Truro on my web site, heading for the industrial museum at Stellartown. I might even arrive there tomorrow if I’m lucky. But this radio web page is giving me a headache. It’s taking ages to upload the programmes to my website and I’ve absolutely no idea why it should be so. It won’t be finished any time soon.
I’ve also finished (for now, at least) the guttering on the barn roof outside here. That’s all re-positioned so I hope that it works better from now on.
Now this is what I’ve been doing for another part of this afternoon. I’ve fitted the cheap anemometer to the roof of the house. It wasn’t giving me an accurate-enough reading from down on ground level in the garden and I still can’t find the data head for the new one.
Now I bet you will all be wondering how I will be changing the batteries in the unit, seeing as they are up there about 40cms above the roof line. Well, that’s easy. The unit is fitted to a 38mm pole that’s 2.5 metres tall, and that’s fastened into a key clamp on the side of the house. I’ve deliberately set it just outside the window at the top of the stairs outside the door into the attic. To change the batteries, you just slacken off the clamp and the pole slides down the kep clamp, and you lean out of the window to change it.
And while we’re on the subject of the guttering and the subject of the house roof, then seeing that I had the ladder out for the anemometer, I propped it up against the front of the house and re-positioned the guttering there a little too so that it looks prettier and is (hopefully) more effective.
And so having done all of that with the guttering, I’m intrigued now to see what will happen now when it rains. But it wasn’t going to work today though – for the first time for ages we have had a glorious summer day.
I hope that it stays like this as well.
