{"id":310,"date":"2012-02-07T00:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=310"},"modified":"2017-06-28T13:59:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T13:59:51","slug":"sunday-is-a-day-of-rest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Monday 6th February 2012 &#8211; SO AFTER THE LAZY&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; day yesterday, today though, I was back at work. <\/p>\n<p>But before that I had breakfast of course and as it was so flaming cold in the verandah I ate it up here. And I did something that I have been longing to do &#8211; namely to run the electric heater simply for some casual heat for 20 minutes or so. We&#8217;re getting all luxurious around here these days<\/p>\n<p>And so this morning I had a pile of paperwork to do and one or two phone calls to make. After that it was some wood to cut up from the dry pile in the lean-to, and to bring a load up here as I&#8217;m close to running out. <\/p>\n<p>For the rest of the day I was working on the bedroom ceiling.<\/p>\n<p>But with there being plenty of solar energy I had the electric heater running up here, simply for the sake of using the surplus current.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1202\/1202004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/1202\/1202004.jpg\" alt=\"12 volt electric heated seat pad les guis virlet puy de dome france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>More importantly, bearing in mind the water issuaes that I&#8217;m having right now, I had a go with this 12-volt electric heated seat pad idea around the water butts that I mentioned the other day. <\/p>\n<p>And that seemed to work okay in principle, because it produced about 20 litres of water out of the frozen mass in there.<\/p>\n<p>But I can do better than this. if I can find some double-sided tape or something I shall make an amendment to that in that I shall set it inside some of that reflective space-blanket insulation stuff, to concentrate the heat against the frozen water.<\/p>\n<p>That might work even better.<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-310 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='310' data-nonce='eb71725199' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-310 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-310 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='310' data-nonce='eb71725199' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-310 unlc'>-2<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-310 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; day yesterday, today though, I was back at work. 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