{"id":3989,"date":"2015-03-12T22:49:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T22:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=3989"},"modified":"2017-07-07T19:51:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T19:51:40","slug":"thursday-12th-march-2015-i-made-the-best-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=3989","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 12th March 2015 – I MADE THE BEST EVER …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… fire that I have ever made at Cecile’s today. It burned beutifully and did everything that it was supposed to do. I only wish that it had burned like that during the bitter winter of 2013.<\/p>\n

Mind you, it wasn’t easy.<\/p>\n

I lit the fire as soon as I went round there, and promptly filled the house with a thick oily smoke. Nothing was coming out of the chimney at all. <\/p>\n

I had to let the fire burn itself out (by which time Cecile and her mother had arrived) and then I dismantled the chimney pipes. And no-one was more surprised than me when, after much ramming, prodding and poking, an enormous dead bird fell out. It really was a monster bird and he was well-wedged in the chimney. I’ve no idea how come he came to be stuck there.<\/p>\n

Reassembling the chimney pipes was much more complicated, and we ended up moving the stove so that the pipes lined up better. And it was during this manoeuvre that I was drowned in a load of soot (wo much for my gorgeous heated shower in the verandah this lunchtime). <\/p>\n

It turns out that with the dead bird blocking the chimney, the soot had falled into the trap and this was blocked solid. Chiseling it all out, I noticed that was a small vent in the trap, presumably to provide an updraught for lifting the smoke up. Unblocking and cleaning the chimney pipes solved many of the problems, but I reckon that it was cleaning out the vent in the trap that gave it the finishing touch.<\/p>\n

Yes, the best fire that I have ever seen out there at La Batisse.<\/p>\n

So what was I up to this morning then?<\/p>\n

\"painting<\/a>I’ve started to put the paint on the wall this morning. Everywhere that I papered on Tuesday now has the first coat of paint.<\/p>\n

It’s lighter than the paint colour on the landing. That’s because I found another 5-litre tub of white paint, so I mixed three litres of that into the yellow. It looks much better now and I can’t wait to see it with the second coat on.
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I had enough time to go round and mask off the rest of the bedroom. That’s a task well-done and so I can crack on with the rest of the first coat tomorrow<\/p>\n

And then I had my lovely shower.<\/p>\n

I also found time to do a machine-load of washing at Cecile’s, for which I’m grateful.<\/p>\n

And it is nice to see Cecile and her mum again after all of this time.<\/p>\n

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