{"id":666,"date":"2010-12-07T01:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=666"},"modified":"2017-07-01T14:57:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T14:57:18","slug":"what-a-dramatic-change-in-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=666","title":{"rendered":"Monday 6th December 2010 &#8211; WHAT A DRAMATIC &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; change in the weather!<\/p>\n<p>The temperature in my room this morning when I woke up was a balmy 11.2\u00b0C this morning &#8211; a long time since it&#8217;s been this high. And outside it was positively pouring with rain &#8211; no surprise there.<\/p>\n<p>But in the verandah we had a pleasant 8\u00b0C, and there was an even-better 9\u00b0C outside. These figures aren&#8217;t bad for a December, especially after the winter we have just had. And the change is dramatic &#8211; just a day and a half for the temperature to shoot up.<\/p>\n<p>So after the usual firewood-chopping session (which is diminishing the pile of wood in the lean-to and it won&#8217;t be long before I can get to where the stairs will be going) and a long chat with Liz and Terry on the phone I came back up here and restarted on the bedroom<br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/foto2010\/1012004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lesguis.com\/images\/foto2010\/1012004.jpg\" alt=\"counter battens bedroom wall space blanket insulation les guis virlet puy de dome france\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\"\/><\/a>I&#8217;ve put another length of insulation on the wall and then I fastened the two conduits to the battens &#8211; one conduit taking the 230 volt power and the other one taking the 12 volt power.<\/p>\n<p>Once the cable was in the conduits I made a start on putting the polystyrene insulation on the walls but I ran out of light. With this appalling weather it was dark at 16:26 this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>So despite the rain (we had 17mm today) it was quite warm outside so I moved one of the two huge piles of recycled bricks out of the way of the pathway down to the garden. They are all stacked up neatly against the barn wall now.<\/p>\n<p>But I have noticed that with the dramatically severe weather followed by the equally-dramatically severe thaw, all of the brush has dramatically died down and I&#8217;m starting to find things that I mislaid around the garden. It won&#8217;t be long before it will be time to start on the landscaping, version 2011. <\/p>\n<p>In this version I&#8217;ll be building the greenhouse, moving the two halves of the old Ford Transit, moving a pile of unwanted trees and digging a couple more beds.<\/p>\n<p>It seems that work never stops around here.<\/p>\n<p>Except on a Sunday of course.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-666 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='666' data-nonce='33c4e809a2' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-666 lc'>+1<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style1 unlike-666 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='666' data-nonce='33c4e809a2' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-666 unlc'>-2<\/span><\/a><\/div> <\/div> <div class='status-666 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; change in the weather! The temperature in my room this morning when I woke up was a balmy 11.2\u00b0C this morning &#8211; a long time since it&#8217;s been this high. And outside it was positively pouring with rain &#8211; no surprise there. But in the verandah we had a pleasant 8\u00b0C, and there was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4507,1616,258],"tags":[463,505,518,2560,896,5565,5366,261,495,286,372,320,412,3680],"class_list":["post-666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eric-hall-2","category-france","category-les-guis","tag-12-volt-domestic-circuit","tag-counter-battens","tag-cutting-wood","tag-eric-hall","tag-ford-transit","tag-france","tag-les-guis","tag-liz-terry-messenger","tag-polystyrene","tag-rainstorm","tag-space-blanket-insulation","tag-tidying-up","tag-verandah","tag-warm-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4523,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions\/4523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}