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Flick ([personal profile] flick) wrote2015-08-07 02:10 pm

Three things

1) The scaffolding has been taken down, and we now have solar panels on the garage roof. Mike is checking the power output approximately ten times an hour, and excitedly reported to me that boiling the kettle used a little bit of grid electricity as well: apparently, it's a bit hazy today, so we're only getting 3.4 thingies, instead of 3.8.

2) Jodie's chamois leather coat really does seem to work. Admittedly we drove up the hill, so that she could stay in the shade, but she had no problems at all on her walk today, even though it's hot outside.

3) Mrs Next Door came over for dinner, followed a bit later by The New Bloke. Nice evening, and TNB is (I'm afraid to say) already much better with Baby Toddler Next Door than Mr Next Door ever was. TND continued his campaign to get into Jodie's paddling pool, but was repeatedly foiled.

GB is back to his usual charming self this evening, to the extent that he came charging across the stableyard after the ducks when I was putting them to bed!

Oh, and we found a random hydrangea, whilst taking a break from pruning the wisteria (urgh, pigeon nest on my head). No idea where it came from: it would be a really stupid place to plant one, and it's so small that it can't have been left by the previous owners anyway!

Huh: that seems to be five things. And there was me, thinking that stealing G's five things was a good idea but overly ambitious!