… day today where I heard the alarm go off properly but the accompanying cloudburst made me turn back over and … errr … wait for a while before arising.<\/p>\n
So after the usual while on the computer I went outside and started work.<\/p>\n
And in another major change to my usual lifestyle, I was still out there at 20:00.<\/p>\n
First plan was to fit the new handles that I had bought the other day to the gardening tools that were lying around. The rake and the binette worked fine but this sledgehammer handle won’t work at all.<\/p>\n
But anyway, using the newly-repaired tools, I hacked my way through a huge pile of undergrowth, ripped up piles of nettle and bramble roots, and laid a big tarpaulin on the floor. <\/p>\n
Onto this tarpaulin I collected up all of the scaffolding that I’ve been using and laid it out on there. That was followed by all of the leftover plastic slates, and then I cleaned out all of the wood and the breeze blocks from where I had been working. <\/p>\n
That gave me some more room to move around there and I could then hack out another pile of brambles.<\/p>\n
There’s probably only about 30m\u00b2 of land to clear back there and I reckoned that it wouldn’t take long, but I’m being rather optimistic about that. It’s going to take a while. <\/p>\n
But it needs to be done because the next phase is to clear all of the stuff from where I park Caliburn and it’s there that I want to put it.<\/p>\n
That took me up to about 19:00 and there was still a little job that I needed to do. The charge controller for one of the banks in the barn packed up ages ago and so I’ve been wiring the panels directly to the solar bank – not that there’s enough energy produced over there to worry the batteries too much.<\/p>\n
But I need to measure the energy that’s going in, and so I disconnected the remote ammeter off the other bank and wired that to it. <\/p>\n
Not so easy as it’s pretty cramped in there so I hope that it’ll work okay. <\/p>\n
Still, we’ll find out tomorrow, won’t we?<\/p>\n
