{"id":279,"date":"2012-03-14T23:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T23:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=279"},"modified":"2017-07-01T07:51:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T07:51:33","slug":"what-a-shower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=279","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 14th March 2012 – WHAT A SHOWER!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even though it is soon to be the annual conference of an … errrrr … organisation (said he, using the term loosely) that featured quite heavily in these pages at one time or another, it is not to that which I am referring.<\/p>\n

Neither am I referring to my visitors either. <\/p>\n

And I use the term in the plural because I had more than one today.<\/p>\n

First off at 09:00 this morning, the phone rang and it was D\u00e9sir\u00e9e, the local estate agent.<\/p>\n

And 09:00 too, you might be thinking, but to everyone’s surprise, including Yours Truly’s, I’d been up for hours. And I mean hours as well. I’d been trying to speak to D\u00e9sir\u00e9e for a while and at last she was free and so she came round here for a chat. <\/p>\n

Amongst the things about which we chatted, and probably the most important, was the building that I own in Montaigut. Long-term readers of these pages will know that I own something like a derelict warehouse there and I use it to keep some cars, namely the Tractio<\/a>n, the 2000E<\/a> and the Mark V Cortina estate<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Above it though is a large space that was formerly six large rooms on two levels, but the dividers, both horizontally and vertically, are long gone. I need to do something about this place and converting the upstairs into two apartments is what I have in mind. <\/p>\n

And so I had a good pick of D\u00e9sir\u00e9e’s brains – after all, she’s the professional.<\/p>\n

Another visitor was Bill, who came round with a radio-cassette player out of an old car. There was a tape stuck in it and being an electronic unit you can’t get the tape out without power.<\/p>\n

At least, most people can’t get the tape out but with the aid of three long fine-pointed screwdrivers and a pair of fine long-nosed pliers, I can manage to do it.<\/p>\n

All these years of a misspent youth, that’s what I put it all down to.<\/p>\n

\"2012<\/a>In between the visits I finally managed to light the fire, the first of the year. And that is busy (even as we speak) disposing of much of the waste wood and the weeds that I have been pulling up this last couple of weeks. <\/p>\n

You’ll notice though that it isn’t on the site of where the greenhouse will be. There was far too much stuff to burn, and the trees were overhanging far too much. <\/p>\n

But I’ve left some over there – I’ll burn that off tomorrow and that should kill off many of the weeds on the site of where the greenhouse will be.
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But back to the shower thing. At 18:00 I noticed that the water in the solar water heater was at 31\u00b0C today, and that the water in the dump load was off the scale again. So 5 litres of that water into the solar water heater gave me 38.5\u00b0C and I had my first home-grown shower of the year. <\/p>\n

Just for a change I actually feel properly clean.<\/p>\n

And I was right about the wind as well.<\/p>\n

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