Yes, the weather has warmed up slightly today - it even managed to struggle up above freezing inside the verandah and so the heat that the cooker gave off while heating up my lunchtime coffee managed to thaw away some of the snow on the roof.
But of course, as you know, it isn't snow at all but just several inches of severe frost.
And this evening we've had a dramatic change in the direction - and the speed - of the wind. We are now having a howling westerly gale blowing in that's keeping the temperature up a little (not like the 11°C that we had the other day) but blowing all the smoke back down my chimney and suffocating the fire (and me as it blows all of the smoke back into my room). Nevertheless I wonder if this might bring me some sunshine. It's been ages since I've had any.
It's not quite how it ought to be though because with my wall being 2.65 metres high and the plasterboard being 2.50 metres high, I need to let in another horizontal batten in the appropriate place to support the join between the boards. But that's tomorrow's task as I ran out of time today.
I'm not going to have too much time tomorrow either. I had a telephone call from some society asking me if I would like to become an energy producer and sell my excess output to the Electricity Board. By pure coincidence they "just happen" to have a salesman in Virlet tomorrow and he will be delighted to talk to me about how I can become rich, at no obligation, and he will even give me a free estimate for the supply and fitting of some solar panels.
Of course this is a far too good an opportunity to miss and I'm eager to see exactly what he proposes with regard to selling me a solar panel system. He'll be here at 14:00 so he says, and I'll tell you all about it tomorrow.
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