It has tipped down with rain non stop here today. I think the comment about us already doing all the planned work might actually have been true as at gone 10am we were still sort of kicking about waiting for someone to ask us to do something. Eventually we suggested to Andy that we go and restack a wood pile which had fallen down and we’d walked past on our first day and offered to do, so he agreed and said he’d come and find us. We stretched that out while we listened to Popmaster and then went inside to find Andy who said he wanted some help with making a solar panel.
This was really interesting – an idea from a friend of his to make solar panels to heat water. It involved ‘reading’ Andy’s blueprint plan and sealing and plugging various holes on a sheet of corolux, inserting tubes and then glueing on edges. We’ll know by the end of the week whether it has worked when it is all dried and ready to test. Andy reckons the materials and time cost about £100 which is about a tenth of what a panel that size would cost if bought from a manufacturers. We then helped put a shelf up in the bathroom just because we were downstairs with the power tools and it was a two pair of hands job. We also helped clean out the filter for the drinking water that is pumped up from a spring and moved a very heavy glass panel.
By then it was lunchtime which was lentil soup – but perfectly edible ;). As we finished eating Andy got paged to attend a cave rescue locally – one of the many fingers in many pies he seems to have is being on call for that. Due to not having thought of the next task for us he told us to have the afternoon off!
Davies and Scarlett had been playing with duplo in the TV room anyway and have had a nice day but are craving fresh air so hoping for a fine day tomorrow as they have plans to make a den in the woodland near the river. Ady and I set up the laptop in the kitchen and booked a few nights in various campsites – we’re meeting Julie for a week in Llangollen and then working our way up to our first host in Scotland. Deborah (Ruth’s sister) came and sat with us and we talked to her for ages about Home Education, travelling, WWOOFing and buying land and living in communities.
We then got involved in cooking dinner as the twins were supposed to be in charge but kept wandering off. We were 14 for dinner again and that was without Andy who was still missing in cave resuce action. Ady and I spent some time this evening upstairs but only the girls were about really so we have retired early and I spent some time looking at photos with Scarlett while Davies watched a film.
You enjoyed lentil soup?!
I saw something about the cave rescue on the news. How cool to know one of the rescuers. 🙂
Comment by Jan — 11 August 2011 @ 8:34 pm