{"id":131,"date":"2012-09-06T21:02:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T21:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=131"},"modified":"2017-07-09T20:36:08","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T20:36:08","slug":"i-didnt-get-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 6th September 2012 – I DIDN’T GET MUCH …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… done on the wall today either. This deadline of next weekend is looking less and less likely<\/p>\n

The effects of all these early mornings proved too much for me today. I vaguely heard the alarm clock go off, but it was 09:10 when I set foot out of bed. <\/p>\n

Had It not been for the fact that I needed to go for a ride on the porcelain horse (or what passes for a porcelain horse around here) I would probably still be in bed right now<\/p>\n

\"collapsed<\/a>A good few hours on the website and then outside at 12:30 and I managed to bung two really good bucket-loads into the wall. <\/p>\n

Even better – after lunch, even with rearranging some of the stones, I still heaved a couple of bucket loads in by 16:30. However, such is the condition of the wall that all of that chalk mortar isn’t advancing me very much.<\/p>\n

And 16:30 though saw me come to a rather shuddering stop.
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According to my weather reporting, weather comes in five grades <\/p>\n

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  1. overcast<\/li>\n
  2. cloudy<\/li>\n
  3. clouds<\/li>\n
  4. scattered clouds<\/li>\n
  5. cloudless<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    We started to day with scattered clouds but by 16:30 we had progressed to a cloudless day. The water temperature in the home-made 12-volt immersion heater that I use as a dump load was 63\u00b0C, the batteries in the barn were fully-charged and there was a good wind blowing. <\/p>\n

    There was also a big pile of dirty clothes to be washed up here in the attic and the bedding needed changing – the kind of things that need doing no matter what other plans you have, and so I stopped work on the wall and dealt with the washing. <\/p>\n

    Put all of that out of the way.<\/p>\n

    While this was going on, I did a few odd jobs around here, like changing plugs on appliances and so on. <\/p>\n

    As you know, I don’t use Continental plugs and sockets here but British ones, for the simple reason that the plugs themselves are fused and so any issues with my system won’t damage the appliances.<\/p>\n

    ‘ve also wired in the new media trolley that I assembled on Sunday. It now has a 4-way 230-volt socket that plugs into the wall – I can plug all of the external drives and so on into it, and it also has 3 x 12-volt DC sockets for things like the DVD player, the video player and so on.<\/p>\n

    Finally, even though the water in the solar shower was quite cold, I bunged 5 litres of hot water out of the dump load into it and had a shower myself – clean myself up.<\/p>\n

    And so now there are clean sheets, clean pillowcases, a clean quilt cover, and a clean me. I’m quite looking forward to that and it won’t be long before I’m in it either. <\/p>\n

    And then tomorrow I really must get cracking and no mistake.<\/p>\n

    -3<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div>
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