Daily Archives: 2012-07-06

SwimGym albeit an hour later than usual – I slept in to enjoy the rain. Also, the longer Karola is away the more of her habits I pick up – so I’m waking an hour before the alarm goes off and waiting for it for the next 60 mins. I think I’ll try waking when I do without the alarm and see what happens.

Food: breakfast before and after SwimGym. Missed lunch. Sausages, sprouts, carrots, and mash for dinner. Hardly starvation diet.

Bramble’s identity disc was found this morning, under water on the gravel in front of the cottage garage. She seemed pleased to get it back.

I called Peak Plumbing re my unanswered e-mail of 21st June. They came round unannounced soon after 4:00pm, just before I arrived back from food shopping for the weekend in Hastings.

1. The warm draught from under the house that Karola found – yes it was some misplaced pipe lagging so that was fixed.
2. They told me how to make the hot water hotter. Apparently there’s a valve that mixes hot and cold water going to taps so that whatever the temperature of the HWC what comes out of the taps won’t scald children or pensioners. I’ve got it at 57 degrees now instead of 45 degrees.
3. The little leak in the bedroom radiator has been fixed.
4. Grayson admitted that if we had either a diesel boiler or a heat exchanger it would have a remote thermostat – just as I said we needed and he earlier denied there was any need. Karola and I will need to discuss this when she gets back.
5. Grayson is sure that with curtains over the windows I would be much warmer – I said it was OK in the evenings but too cool in the mornings. He also explained why some radiators feel hot and others less so. The hot radiators are nearest sources of cold – hence under windows or in the stairway – they’re working harder to try and get the surroundings warm.

Henere called in briefly to say he was working some of tomorrow, Saturday, so might not make it to continue on the fencing until Sunday. After Henere left I cut up another 4 -5 bags of old apple logs for the cottage fire.

Rain overnight didn’t go away so promptly today – I guess the ground is saturated because surface flooding stayed round all day. The deepest (30mm) puddle on the cottage lawn is depicted below.

Oak Avenue Weather:4℃—15℃ 1.0mm rain [80.9]