This morning I was up and about fairly early and after breakfast I had the usual couple of hours on the website.<\/p>\n
When I went outside I started to rebuild the 12-volt immersion heater. I had a couple of attempts at fitting the element before I was satisfied, and then I made up some electric cables out of a jump lead (the red one) and a starter cable (the black one). Once I’d done that, i added another pile of insulation to it and sealed it all in. It’s now all fitted, wired in and working properly.<\/p>\n
As an added attraction, I’ve removed the warning light and that’s now fitted into the fascia panel of the socket that’s wired into the excess charge circuit.<\/p>\n
This afternoon I was up on the scaffolding ripping off the ivy from the back wall of the house, and it’s all gone now, which is just as well as there was quite a lot and it was stuck fast.<\/p>\n
I cleaned off under the eaves too and then spent a pleasant hour looking for tools. Once I had found everything that I was seeking, I charged up the cement mixer with some sand and lime mortar, enough to make two buckets full.<\/p>\n
Up on the scaffolding, I started to spread this about over the rubble with which we had infilled between the chevrons. There were some enormous gaps in there which are all infilled now – at least, most of them because I ran out of mortar. Mind you, it was 19:20 and so I’ll mix up another bucket or two and finish it off tomorrow.<\/p>\n
This evening I made one of my kidney bean and aubergine whatsits – enough to last me three or four days. I don’t want to spend the rest of the week cooking. <\/p>\n
