{"id":670,"date":"2010-12-02T23:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=670"},"modified":"2017-07-01T14:55:12","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T14:55:12","slug":"well-theres-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"Thursday 2nd December 2010 – WELL THERE’S COLD …"},"content":{"rendered":"

… and there’s very cold, and then there’s .. errrr … -8.9\u00b0C. That’s what the temperature dropped to last night. No wonder it went cold in here all of a sudden at about 00:30, and why it was only 9.1\u00b0C in here this morning when I woke up.<\/p>\n

First job this morning before I could cut my wood was to look at the batteries. Last night I noticed that the charge had suddenly dropped to about 11.8 volts and there was a smell of gas lingering around.
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\"overheated<\/a>So this morning a quick touch test showed that one of them was overheating and on a closer examination you can see that this battery has burst. I don’t know why either. Since I’ve had my water heater wired in as a dump load, there shouldn’t be any possibility of any overcharge, and this battery isn’t one of those that handle the input.<\/p>\n

But changing the battery for another restored the current and then I went and chopped another huge load of wood – I had a feeling that I’ll be going to need it.<\/p>\n

The postie came by this morning with a registered letter. Not very unusual, you might think, but she walked down from the end of the lane as I’m snowed in right now. I was impressed with her devotion to duty anyway.<\/p>\n

Later I carried on with the wardrobe and it’s finished as far as I can do it. I’ve none of the wood for the sides and the shelves and so on. That’ll have to wait until I can get in to Montlucon, whenever that might be. But I also did a little clearing up in the bedroom too, so that I can make some more space for working. <\/p>\n

I also managed to do some more in the barn as well.<\/p>\n

Up here after knocking off work it was a mere 5.6\u00b0C. Not surprising because with all of the snow on the windows in the roof, no heat is getting in from outside. But this little heater is doing a very valiant job and I’m impressed that it can cope with these temperatures with just burning old scrap offcuts of wood.<\/p>\n

Tea though is difficult right now. I cook in the verandah right now and the temperatures are impossible. I can’t cook myself a decent meal when I’m having to work in temperatures like\u00a0-3\u00b0C. So it’s a handful or two of pasta, a tin of beans and some veg out of a tin. That’s the best I can do.<\/p>\n

I just can’t believe this weather.<\/p>\n

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