{"id":663,"date":"2010-12-09T22:44:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=663"},"modified":"2017-07-01T14:58:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T14:58:42","slug":"i-was-right-about-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 9th December 2010 – I WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE WEATHER."},"content":{"rendered":"


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\"heavy<\/a>I woke up this morning … "DAH DAH DAH DAH DAH " – ed<\/em> …to -2\u00b0C and a covering of snow everywhere. <\/p>\n

And perishing cold it was too. It snookered my plans of digging up the chicory and blanching it – I needed a hammer and chisel to get into the soil.<\/p>\n

So instead, after cutting a pile of wood, I started to wire up the wind turbine on the barn to some batteries I had lying around. I may as well try to make use of some of the wind that we might have. <\/p>\n

But that was a perishing cold job too and by the time that lunch came around and I still hadn’t finished and I was frozen to the marrow I abandoned that idea too.<\/p>\n

After lunch I made a start on moving some of the old slate that is in the bedroom. And after about 50 bucketfuls up and down stairs you can just about notice the difference. I had no idea how much there is in that room. I’ll be here until next Christmas trying to shift it all. <\/p>\n

But at least I’ve shifted enough so that I can get the next load of insulation onto the wall. I can do that tomorrow if we still have sub-arctic temperatures.<\/p>\n

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