{"id":303,"date":"2012-02-14T23:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T23:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=303"},"modified":"2017-06-28T14:19:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T14:19:53","slug":"it-was-a-pleasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday 14th February 2012 – IT WAS A PLEASURE …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… to wake up this morning with a temperature of 13.5\u00b0C up here in the room. It’s been a while since I’ve had a temperature like that. <\/p>\n

Mind you, what wasn’t a pleasure was being woken up by a phone call at some ungodly hour of the morning. However, it did concern work so I can’t complain too much I suppose, even if it did get me off on the wrong foot.<\/p>\n

\"heavy<\/a>After all of that, I went to beat the bounds of the property. As you know, we had a right caning of snow through the night and I wanted to see what the weather had done to the place. <\/p>\n

The answer is, as you might expect, that I’m properly snowed in and I shan’t be going anywhere for a bit. Luckily I had the foresight to leave Caliburn up at he top of the bank<\/p>\n

As an aside, you can see the Sankey trailer and the Minerva<\/a>, and also the old orange central heating tank that Simon gave me to use to store biofuels in.
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And while I was checking up on the house, I had a brainwave, And it’s so simple that I’ve no idea why I never thought of it before – and I’m kicking myself for having suffered like this these last couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

And so I dashed off for a rummage in the barn. <\/p>\n

In the apartment in Brussels I had a small white kitchen table with two drop leaves and I remember bringing it down here. That had to be around somewhere and eventually I found all of the pieces. <\/p>\n

I brought it up into the attic and assembled it in the room, and laid all of the kitchen stuff on it. It’s now making quite a useful kitchen worktop up here and I wished that I had remembered it earlier.<\/p>\n

This afternoon I didn’t manage to do very much as I had a whole series of phone calls one after the other, and so it was pretty much a wasted day. Still, there will be other days.<\/p>\n

Tea was baked potatoes and spicy beans, cooked in the oven. This was an excellent buy, this new woodstove.<\/p>\n

But the temperature outside just now is astonishing – minus 1.6\u00b0C. That’s over 10\u00b0C improvement from last night. If that kind of temperature transforms itself into a decent daytime temperature, I might even have some water tomorrow. <\/p>\n

And not before time either – I’m now reduced to melting buckets of snow.<\/p>\n

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