{"id":291,"date":"2012-03-02T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T22:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=291"},"modified":"2017-06-30T07:07:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T07:07:54","slug":"well-i-didnt-quite-have-my-early-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"Friday 2nd March 2012 – WELL, I DIDN’T …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… quite have my early night last night.<\/p>\n

I started talking to someone on the internet just after I posted last night’s blog and it was 02:00 when I finally went to bed.<\/p>\n

But here’s something that doesn’t happen every day – not only was I awake when the alarm went off, and not only was I breakfasting, but I was actually outside weeding the garden when the alarm clock went off this morning.<\/p>\n

Wide awake at 07:30, I was, and I’ve no idea why. I must have wet the bed or something.<\/p>\n

But it was a good day to be wide awake so early. By the time that I came in for a coffee – at about 11:50 – it was 24.6\u00b0C outside with gorgeous blue skies and everything. It really was marvellous.<\/p>\n

Terry came round a little later. He had a job of work to do in the vicinity and so he popped by to sey hello. And I swapped a few 4mm bolts for a few sacks of sawdust – the composting toilet depends on sawdust, and plenty of it, and I was starting to run low, although you might not think so with all of the wood that I have cut up just recently<\/p>\n

With it being so nice, I quickly coupled up the solar water heater -cum – shower unit. I was not really wanting to do that as there are a few improvements that I want to do, but it was a shame to miss out on the solar heat and the possibility of a shower some time in the near future. <\/p>\n

I could certainly do with a shower anyway, and I’ll be heading to the swimming baths at Neris-les-Bains if it stays nice tomorrow.<\/p>\n

With so much solar energy (we had 243 amp-hours today – that’s about 3KwH) the water in the dump load reached 48\u00b0C. That was the cue for the first load of washing for the year. <\/p>\n

And there was plenty of that to do as well. <\/p>\n

\"tabletop<\/a>And it was nice to sit outside this afternoon with a butty or two, a coffee from the electric coffee machine, and watch the washing machine do the business using water heated by the surplus energy off my system. It really is a sense of acccomplishment for all of this to happen. <\/p>\n

But as for the washing itself, most of it is going to have to be done again. I tried to do it using these washing nut things but they turned out to be a dismal failure and haven’t made mush impression at all on the dirty stuff. <\/p>\n

I’ll have to buy some “proper” washing powder stuff and do it again.
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After all of that, I spent the rest of the afternoon in the garden again. <\/p>\n

I didn’t have the fire going because I had the washing hanging out, but there’s now a huge mountain of weeds and so on ready to be burnt and I might do that tomorrow morning. <\/p>\n

The area to where I’m going to move one of the compost bins is now clear. All I need to do is to dig up a few small tree stumps there, and compact some hardcore down to stop the weeds from penetrating from underneath, and then I can put the first of the bins there. <\/p>\n

And when the pile of weeds has been burnt, I can start to put the greenhouse there where it ought to be.<\/p>\n

It seems to me that everyone is starting to come out of hibernation now.<\/p>\n

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