… exertions, I slept like a log. And woke up in the fireplace too – but you’ve heard that one before.
I’d been on my travels too – but I’ll spare you all the gory details as you are probably eating your tea just now.
I’m still aching in the shoulders, although it’s eased off a little. The pain will all go away probably the night before Terry rings me up to sand down the plasterboard in the second bedroom. That’s what usually happens.
Just the usual things happened today – a walk down for the baguette – a sit up on the wall in the windy sunlight at lunchtime. But for much of the afternoon I’ve been taking it easy.
This morning I finished off uncombining the blog entries for my trip to Brussels over Christmas and New Year of 2011/2012 to see Marianne and sped through until 24th April when I shuddered to a halt.
The period from then until the end of May 2012 is, to put it bluntly, a total mess and this is going to take some untangling.
The pages that I wrote for my voyage are somewhat hit-and-miss. I hadn’t developed a real technique at that time. I spent much of the afternoon having a basic look at them, having a think, and having a distraction or two (and much to my surprise I didn’t actually crash out today).
But the net result of all of that is that I now think that I know how I’m going to do it – and it will be a lesson for subsequent years (although things have improved a great deal since 2012).
So now I’m going for a long walk. I had a letter in the post that needs a reply, and it’s only from the Estate Agents down the hill, so I reckon that it would be a good idea to take it down there tonight.
It will be exhausting, but it will probably do me some good.
That 10ah battery is not behaving as it should. It never seems to have more than 12.6v in it so I set the trigger threshold for 12.6v my 2.5A fan ran fir 10 seconds then stopped as the 11.9v setting had been achieved. Ten seconds later, the fan restarted. It kept that routine. I’m getting a feeling that is probably a knackered battery. It was from eBay so it wouldn’t surprise me for somebody to sell dross as new.
Take the battery off
Fully-charge the battery on a standard battery charger
Stick the battery in a cupboard for 6 weeks
Go back and check the voltage.
In the meantime, couple up a different battery or batteries into that circuit and check their performance. If the battery (or batteries) are of a different size, is the pro rata performance the same or different?