{"id":1134,"date":"2009-09-07T22:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1134"},"modified":"2017-06-26T06:20:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T06:20:01","slug":"i-havent-made-much-progress-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=1134","title":{"rendered":"Monday 7th September 2009 – I HAVEN’T MADE MUCH PROGRESS TODAY …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"counter<\/a>… and I can’t understand why. <\/p>\n

I was working quite relentlessly all day without a pause, except for lunch. I’m rather disappointed with what I accomplished (or didn’t accomplish, as the case may be.<\/p>\n

I have about half of the studding on the walls of the house. This is to create the air gap for the insulation I’ll be fitting. I was hoping to have at least three walls studded and the insulation fitted today.<\/p>\n

But the place isn’t half going to be insulated – Terry thinks too much and maybe he’s right – but I shan’t be worrying about the cold. Even in my little room I noticed in the winter that putting the light and the computer on raised the temperature by a degree or so. It’ll do more than that in here.<\/p>\n

And talking of heat, Bill came up with a nifty idea. I’m trying to find a cheap small pot-bellied wood stove for my room. But everything is too big and too expensive seeing as it’s just for a temporary measure. Bill suggests an “insert” – what the French put in their open fires – supported on bricks and connected up to the flue in the wall. I’d rather have a pot-bellied stove but there might be some mileage in Bill’s idea if I can’t source a stove.<\/p>\n

And work is not going to progress very much this week. Terry needs a hand on Thursday and there’s Liz’s vegan chocolate cake involved, and tomorrow afternoon Marianne the local tourist guide and author who used to live in Alsager and who taught in the school across the road from where I lived in Crewe (you’ve no idea how small the world is) is giving a walk around La Cellette and the abandoned railway line.<\/p>\n

In other news, at the Anglo-French group tonight someone asked the question that if you could drive between the UK and the mainland, on which side of the road would you drive. The answer is of course easy. Going towards the UK you would drive on the left to help you become accustomed to the English method and coming from the UK to Europe you would drive on the right in order to become accustomed to European methods.<\/p>\n

Simple, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

-6<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div>
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