Liz rang me this morning.

"Are you okay, Eric?"
"Yes, fine thanks"
"That's okay, but we were worried about you. You haven't blogged for a couple of days".
So my blog does serve some useful purpose - it lets people know that I'm still there. Not ALL THERE, of course, but then again you can't have everything.

But with not posting anything this weekend I bet you are all wondering what you have been missing. And the answer is "nothing at all" because nothing happened. Saturday I went for a couple of hours to Francois's do and met the usual crowd there. And I'm glad that I went for Bill offered me an immersion heater - 100 litres - that he's just taken out of his house. I've been looking for a small one like this for quite a while and if I can change the element from 230 volt to 12 volt then this will go nicely in the barn, assuming that we ever get any more decent sunshime.

Sunday I did nothing and went nowhere. I can't even recall if I went out of the house even. There was nothing at all to say about it.

Today though was a much better day. I woke up to about an inch of ice on the windows (outside of course) and a gorgeous Alpine morning. And if it had stayed like that all day it would have been wonderful. But of course it was all too good to be true and by lunchtime had the clouds drifiting slowly back. But about 175 amps of energy - the second-highest since I've been back from Canada - has made a difference to my batteries. They've been quite down for a couple of weeks.

And inside the house I've finished all of the insulation in the bedroom and I've made a good start on the counter-battens. Tomorrow will hopefully see me start fitting the plasterboard. But I'm having a little issue with fitting part of it and I'm going to have to put some of the boards on sideways. The sheets measure 2.50 by 1.20 and normally they would be fitted upright. But the distance from the wall to the edge on the window is 1.24. A strip of 4cms would look pretty silly and you can also see that if I turn the board sideways-on, I can cut it so that it will do two strips with a very minimal waste. So that's what I shall be doing.

And Terry wants me to give him a hand with the scaffolding. "We'll do it on a nice day" he says. So that will be some time in May then, I reckon.