The first exciting thing that happened was me lying wide awake in bed for ages thinking that I may as well get up – and finding when I did so that it was all of 07:45 – a good half-hour before the alarm goes off.<\/p>\n
And not only that – with having had the fire on up here last night to cook a pizza, it was 16.6\u00b0C in here too, and it actually felt warm as well.<\/p>\n
So having had breakfast and another load of coffee I did a pile of stuff on the computer. And then it was off outside to survey the house and barn – something that, quite surprisingly, I have never done. <\/p>\n
It was not only glorious sunshine but a really strong wind and once more the wind energy today exceeded the cumulative total since I installed the power meter. And all of that was totally exciting as well.<\/p>\n
Knocking off at 18:30 I discovered that the water in the dump load was heated to over 68.5\u00b0C and that’s a record this year. I had a gorgeous hot wash and shave with the water at that temperature and that made me feel so much better<\/p>\n
At the Anglo-French group tonight we had two new attendees, Isobel from the Comcom at Marcillat en Combraille and her friend. We all had a really good night down there in St Gervais d’Auvergne. <\/p>\n
And on the way home, the stars are the brightest that I have seen for a while. There are thousands of them out there, and Jupiter and Venus are wonderful. I can’t see Uranus from here though.<\/p>\n
Back here, the water in the dump load was still 61\u00b0C and so I rounded the evening off by doing the washing-up with it, saving the gas supply for tonight.<\/p>\n
So you can see what I mean about “exciting”, can’t you.<\/p>\n
But in really depressing news, it’s three years tonight that Liz left us all. Time travels so fast these days but it can’t dim the lights.<\/p>\n
