Oh dear @Dovefromabove - but if the plumbing is fixed your OH might a little bit happy? Omelettes and all that. Hope everyone manages to stay as cool as they can. There's no point knocking ourselves out in this weather. I've got a meeting this morning that I have to drive to - hope the car starts and it's not too hot in there! Tomatoes and cabbages watered but that's all everyone's getting today.
Slept through from 11 to 7 am! What a surprise. We have the 1tog duvet on the bed ( I seem to need a little weight, find just a sheet a bit weird ) and the fan on all night. OH found a ‘relaxing’ video on YouTube, a heavy rainstorm with thunder in the background, and set the bedroom tv to go off automatically after an hour. Not sure if it was coincidence that we both slept like logs, but will try it again tonight and see!
@Dovefromabove. We had a similar problem, turned out it was the shelf that Roland had put in the airing cupboard, was pushed back a bit too much and had just touched the pipe and dislodge the fittings, mended in a flash.
@Ergates. all those things would have contributed to a good night’s sleep, I slept well with just having the duvet cover. We have a lovely one tog, all pure cotton, but it’s definitely been warmer here than last week. Stepson said it was 34° in Exeter yesterday.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Update No 2 ... Having carefully removed some of the boarding the nice plumber has found that he can't get at the pipe without taking our stairs out 😱 ... this he is (thankfully) not prepared to do, and is phoning British Gas to persuad them to allow him to reroute the pipe in a much more sensible way than at present ... OK, so some of the pipework will be visible but I care not ... anyone buying this house will re-jig and re-fit the kitchen so a bit of visible pipework won't put them off. This will take a couple of days ... today he will cap off the leaking pipe (which means no hot water in the downstairs loo, but that's cope-able with) then probably in a week's time he'll be back to reroute the piping.
He's told BG that the alternative is to take out the stairs, put us up in a hotel for a week, replace the pipe, employ a joiner to reinstate the stairs and a carpet fitter to relay the carpet.
Hurrah! BG are happy have okayed it for him to re-route the pipe.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hello all, just about keeping up with all that's going on, it's nearly two weeks since we started having internet problems, seems we have a live box and wiring too quick for our ancient machines and they are trying to reduce the speed, whether this is true I don't know! Picked a lot of chillies this morning and now put them to dry. Very hot again. I hope your plumbing is sorted soon Dove.!
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Parched! The land is parched. Water restrictions in some parts and not in others. So far we are not affected.
A holiday here for our nursing neighbour's dog this week. The dogs are panting and hot but are lying under the shade of the pergola with a canopy of mulberry tree entwined with a grapevine. A muscat variety - the birds' favourite!!
@floralies : a foot bath is a good idea to beat the heat. A frozen hot water bottle is another. @Busy-Lizzie - I prefer to water the plants in the evening and so seem, do the mozzies at my ankles and neck. Yes, we are gradually getting dusk earlier and earlier. Autumn it seems, is next month but I think it will still be hot for September. Good luck @Dovefromabove with the plumbing job - it'll be all over in a week's time and you'll just have to recover from the bill!
Peppers frying whole in the pan, a salmon steak and another tomato and onion salad - lunch is served. Chilled sparkling water, some grapes and coffee to finish. Then it's inside for the afternoon. A good book, maybe an attempt at a cryptic crossword and an episode of something on Netflix.
Listening to the news this morning, the outlook for Britain looks bleak. I hope the winter isn't too harsh this year. Enjoy the sunshine.
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Hope everyone manages to stay as cool as they can. There's no point knocking ourselves out in this weather. I've got a meeting this morning that I have to drive to - hope the car starts and it's not too hot in there!
Tomatoes and cabbages watered but that's all everyone's getting today.
OH found a ‘relaxing’ video on YouTube, a heavy rainstorm with thunder in the background, and set the bedroom tv to go off automatically after an hour. Not sure if it was coincidence that we both slept like logs, but will try it again tonight and see!
@Ergates. all those things would have contributed to a good night’s sleep, I slept well with just having the duvet cover. We have a lovely one tog, all pure cotton, but it’s definitely been warmer here than last week.
Stepson said it was 34° in Exeter yesterday.
He's told BG that the alternative is to take out the stairs, put us up in a hotel for a week, replace the pipe, employ a joiner to reinstate the stairs and a carpet fitter to relay the carpet.
Hurrah! BG are happy have okayed it for him to re-route the pipe.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Picked a lot of chillies this morning and now put them to dry. Very hot again.
I hope your plumbing is sorted soon Dove.!
Second attempt at a no news message!
Parched! The land is parched. Water restrictions in some parts and not in others. So far we are not affected.
A holiday here for our nursing neighbour's dog this week. The dogs are panting and hot but are lying under the shade of the pergola with a canopy of mulberry tree entwined with a grapevine. A muscat variety - the birds' favourite!!
@floralies : a foot bath is a good idea to beat the heat. A frozen hot water bottle is another. @Busy-Lizzie - I prefer to water the plants in the evening and so seem, do the mozzies at my ankles and neck. Yes, we are gradually getting dusk earlier and earlier. Autumn it seems, is next month but I think it will still be hot for September. Good luck @Dovefromabove with the plumbing job - it'll be all over in a week's time and you'll just have to recover from the bill!
Peppers frying whole in the pan, a salmon steak and another tomato and onion salad - lunch is served. Chilled sparkling water, some grapes and coffee to finish. Then it's inside for the afternoon. A good book, maybe an attempt at a cryptic crossword and an episode of something on Netflix.
Listening to the news this morning, the outlook for Britain looks bleak. I hope the winter isn't too harsh this year. Enjoy the sunshine.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The view from the flat over the garage this morning.
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