{"id":3891,"date":"2015-02-07T02:15:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T02:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=3891"},"modified":"2017-07-07T12:38:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T12:38:56","slug":"friday-6th-february-2015-now-heres-yet-another-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=3891","title":{"rendered":"Friday 6th February 2015 – NOW HERE’S YET ANOTHER THING;"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, I curtailed my lunch break today.<\/p>\n

And there was a good reason to. It was cold today in my attic and I didn’t feel much like hanging around. I reckoned that I may as well go back to work early and then knock off early, and come up here and light a fire.<\/p>\n

But it didn’t quite work out like that.<\/p>\n

This morning it was comparatively warm up here compared to what it was on the groud floor – 12.8\u00b0C here compared to a mere 0.4\u00b0C downstairs. And with 3\u00b0C in the bedroom, at least the decorators’ door that I fitted yesterday is doing something. Especially when outside, we’d had heavy snow during the night and it was minus 4\u00b0C, and that was how it stayed for the day.<\/p>\n

I cracked on with the window surround this morning and I made good progress. One side was done and half of the other was done by lunchtime. and I was impressed by that.<\/p>\n

But with the curtailed lunch break I attacked the rest of it and despite a few distractions, such as scavenging around for offcuts of the type that I’m using. And even though it got colder and colder, and now I know why old-time carpenters preferred tools with wooden handles after handling metal tools all day in 4\u00b0C, I put in a good shift. And even though I was intending to knock off early, it was 18.30 when I knocked off.<\/p>\n

\"window<\/a>Mind you, it was worth it, because as you can see, the window is now finished – except for the varnishing and the beading, but that’s not going to be done for quite a while. It’s too cold for varnishing and I don’t have any of the correct-sized beading. <\/p>\n

But I am impressed with this. It’s certainly better than the first effort, but then fitting the wooden sill instead if tiling it gave it a much better start.
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Up here it was 8.9\u00b0C – the lowest that it’s been for a couple of years while I’ve actually been here, but the temperature outside is plummeting alarmingly. A nice roaring fire and a plate of vegan sausages and mash however quickly put some heart in me.<\/p>\n

And you can tell who is a Government employee and who is self-employed. I’ve seen neither hide nor hair of the postie for a week, yet the boulang\u00e8re<\/em> struggled down here, half a mile here and half a mile back through the snow on foot to bring me the weekend’s bread. Hats off to Sophie!<\/p>\n

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