… the pointing today, and I wouldn’t be doing any tomorrow save for Rosemary coming round for a lesson (talk about the blind leading the blind!) because I was rather side-tracked this afternoon.<\/p>\n
And so I was this morning. <\/p>\n
I made a good start though thanks to my really early night last night (in bed well before midnight) and I had a good crack at the web site. <\/p>\n
With not being on long enough last night to charge the computer though, the battery went quickly flat and when I switched on the inverter to charge up the machine, the internet came on and my friend Marianne from Belgium was on line. <\/p>\n
So we ended up chatting for an hour or so seeing as we haven’t seen each other on line for months.<\/p>\n
But this afternoon, doing the pointing means of course lowering the scaffolding and as I was about to do that, I suddenly remembered that the wind turbine that I put on the side of the house in the early spring is only wired in temporarily.<\/p>\n
If I move the scaffolding, that will be that and it won’t be long before the old manky wire that I used to connect up the wind turbine to the charging circuit in the emergency, all open and exposed to the atmosphere, rots away.<\/p>\n
Consequently I set to to run some decent 2.5mm wire through some flexible conduit, and to install a junction box under the eaves for the second wind turbine that will one day be installed on the other side of the house.<\/p>\n
And while I was up the ladder under the eaves it occurred to me that while I was there I could fit a light there as planned, that works off the dusk\/dawn sensor and which will automatically light up the front door and down the side of the house to the door to the lean-to during the hours of darkness.<\/p>\n
And as I was running that wire through the conduit, it occurred to me that it might be a good idea to put a light under the eaves at the other end of the front of the house to light up the door to the verandah.<\/p>\n
And so I ran yet more wire through another conduit.<\/p>\n
Net result – the wire is ready to wire up the wind turbine, but I’ll wait until Rosemary is here before I do that. I’m going to have to be something of an acrobat and on a ladder that is hanging on a roof, I’d rather there was someone here to call the ambulance. <\/p>\n
One of the lights, that over the front door and the lean-to, is now installed and when I came back from PIonsat tonight (it’s the Anglo-French club’s meeting) it was doing exactly what it was supposed to.<\/p>\n
And doing it quite efficiently too.<\/p>\n
Not that 1 watt of LED power is going to light up much, but I could certainly move around without a torch and that is what is the aim.<\/p>\n
So an early start tomorrow to steam-clean the verandah seeing as how I’ll be having visitors. I might even clean some more in here too – you never know. I bet I still won’t find my mobile phone though. <\/p>\n
I haven’t a clue where that might be.<\/p>\n
