Seems to me you barely have time to blink and it's weekend again. Not that i mind too much, no need to get up at silly o clock tomorrow, start the day off a bit more calmly.
It has been a bit full on this week, yesterday in Mid Wales for a meeting, all a bit exciting with sleet coming down ice on the roads and snow on the hills. The VW didn't miss a beat and was pretty sure footed too.
Today a running round the builders merchant sort of day, filled the VW with celcon blocks and fitted a couple of automatic door closer things in as well. The kids, of all ages have got this open the door thing pretty much sorted but they struggle with the close it after you. In an old house where we rely on doors to stop draughts that can defeat the determined piler of firewood on to the fire.
That said the temperature in the living room is driving towards 25 C - someone put a couple of our compressed wood logs on to the fire and, until I turned it down the boiler started to threaten to boil the water in the central heating.
That's really good to know - if it drops as cold as some forecasts say we have the great equaliser in the heat logs.
There is another reason of course for the heat blast, the student went off to university mid afternoon to get books and then headed on to see her mum. She should be back any second and a bath will be required. Her ideal would be to turn on the hot tap and get a jet of superheated steam. She likes her baths so hot you could cook a lobster. I've turned the fire down a bit, as soon as I see those headlights outside the window it can go back up again.
As soon as I know she is safely home I can unpack the corkscrew.
R
It has been a bit full on this week, yesterday in Mid Wales for a meeting, all a bit exciting with sleet coming down ice on the roads and snow on the hills. The VW didn't miss a beat and was pretty sure footed too.
Today a running round the builders merchant sort of day, filled the VW with celcon blocks and fitted a couple of automatic door closer things in as well. The kids, of all ages have got this open the door thing pretty much sorted but they struggle with the close it after you. In an old house where we rely on doors to stop draughts that can defeat the determined piler of firewood on to the fire.
That said the temperature in the living room is driving towards 25 C - someone put a couple of our compressed wood logs on to the fire and, until I turned it down the boiler started to threaten to boil the water in the central heating.
That's really good to know - if it drops as cold as some forecasts say we have the great equaliser in the heat logs.
There is another reason of course for the heat blast, the student went off to university mid afternoon to get books and then headed on to see her mum. She should be back any second and a bath will be required. Her ideal would be to turn on the hot tap and get a jet of superheated steam. She likes her baths so hot you could cook a lobster. I've turned the fire down a bit, as soon as I see those headlights outside the window it can go back up again.
As soon as I know she is safely home I can unpack the corkscrew.
R
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