I finally managed to get my long-promised Bangers, mash and baked beans this evening. and it was gorgeous. The leftover vegan sausages from Christmas (and weren’t they nice?), a tin of baked beans, and I found a tin of spuds in the emergency supplies.<\/p>\n
Yes, a tin of spuds, for all of mine have ended up in the compost. I know that you are supposed to keep them in a frost-free room but nothing round here is frost-free when the temperature reaches -13.5\u00b0C outside, and the whole crop had gone.<\/p>\n
In the bedroom, the wiring is almost finished and I’ll soon be able to do the boarding. And I’ve been having tremendous fun with it all. There’s conduit and trunking and wires all over the place and it’s like 3 plates of spaghetti. Of course I don’t have a clue what I’m doing but that’s not anything that has ever bothered me in the past. The proof of the pudding will be in the eating and that’s when we will see if the place catches fire or not.<\/p>\n
All last night and today we had a howling gale. It’s blown in one of the panes of glass in the bedroom window to match the other one that a rock fell through. I can’t board this one up as there won’t be any light getting into the room and there’s no point replacing the glass so I’m going to be freezing to death in there while I’m working.<\/p>\n
But what I did do today was to dismantle the dump load from the electrical set-up in the barn and use the charge controller to measure the current being produced by the big wind turbine. And there was that much wind that at times there was quite a charge being registered. I’m going to have to get a decent charge controller with data facilities for the wind turbine that I’ll be mounting on the house. Stuck on a short pole attached to the fence that was going around like the clappers too in this wind.<\/p>\n
This evening I was outside working until 18:10 before it went black outside. I’m using this final half-hour of my working day to have some sort of desultory tidying-up of the outside of the house and barn. Heaven knows it needs it, with the place having been covered in scaffolding for the last two summers. But for some reason that I don’t quite understand, I’ve been feeling quite enthusiastic today, the best I’ve been for quite a while. I think that I’m making some kind of rapid progress, which is cheering me up.<\/p>\n
I’m not used to this.<\/p>\n
