Yes, I had knocked off work today by 16:45!<\/p>\n
But there was a reason for that. <\/p>\n
On my official sky-watching scale, today would be described as “glorious”. So much so that when a small cloud floated by at about 15:30 I stood and watched it.<\/p>\n
The batteries were fully-charged by midday and by 16:45 I had hot water at 64\u00b0C. All of this can only mean one thing, and so I unleashed the tabletop washing machine. <\/p>\n
Loads of washing here as it’s been a few weeks since I last did some, and so that was that. Off we went<\/p>\n
Of course, washing means clean sheets, quilt cover and pillowcases. <\/p>\n
As for me, I’m still smoking from being too close to the fire that I lit in my brassi\u00e8re the other day. But not to worry – 5 litres of water at 64\u00b0C into the solar shower to push that temperature up, and I had a gorgeous and most unexpected shower, followed by clean clothes and the like. <\/p>\n
That’ll all go nicely with the clean bedding.<\/p>\n
While the washing machine was still going, I went and had another look at these LED strip lights. <\/p>\n
The batteries that I had been burning were up to 12.55 volts (of course they didn’t stay like that) and when I switched on the strip light that I had fitted the other day, well, I wasn’t disappointed in the least.<\/p>\n
Quite the reverse in fact. <\/p>\n
So much so that I disconnected the 12-volt fluorescent strip light over the work bench in the barn and installed a pair of these, together with the appropriate switch. These are impressive, these strip lights, and I’m going to buy more of these wherever I can find them<\/p>\n
This morning though I was feeling inspired for the first time for ages and had a good session on the web site. But I was interrupted for half an hour as Terry needed to go to the quarry and wanted a hand.<\/p>\n
With being nice and clean, I won’t go to Commentry and the swimming baths tomorrow – i’ll just go for a quick flash around St Eloy-les-Mines. It really was a nice, unexpectedly good day today and I’m glad that I took full advantage.<\/p>\n
