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<\/a>This is not Thursday night’s photo but Friday night’s, where you can see how high I am up the wall here. As you know, I was hoping to finish it all before I go away but what with one thing and another I had to revise my target to just half of the all. <\/p>\nAnd so there’s not much more to do up there now and I’m hoping that at least that part of the wall will be finished long before next weekend. <\/p>\n
Mind you, it would have been nice to have it done before I go to Canada.
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This morning the heat drove me out of bed fairly early and so I’ve been tidying again. I’m not sure how it is that I can make this place so untidy so quickly.<\/p>\n
At lunchtime I went to Commentry but didn’t buy anything worthwhile except some new AA and AAA batteries to take with me to Canada. But I did hear on the news that here in the Puy-de-Dome we are on “Red Alert” for la canicule<\/i> – the heatwave. And that’s not surprising.<\/p>\n
In the pool at Neris les Bains, everyone else must have heard about la canicule<\/i> because there were more people in the water there than there were in the water after the sinking of the Titanic<\/i>. You could hardly move. But in something of a surprise, the lifeguard came over to talk to me about solar panels. Either he had seen Caliburn, of else the advertising on the side of my holdall. I always take that down to the pool and leave it with the advertising facing the people in the water. I can’t emphasise enough – the three steps to a successful business are “advertising”, “advertising” and “advertising”.<\/p>\n
The water in the solar shower was 45\u00b0C when I returned home. The 12-volt immersion heater was at 57\u00b0C and so even though it was late, I did another load of washing. I reckon that one more load of washing just before I go away and that will be me organised.<\/p>\n
But it ain’t ‘arf ‘ot, mum. <\/p>\n