There must surely be someone called Brian working at the Met Office. If not a Brian then there will definitely be a John. Anyway if you believe in the great weather god Brian the temperatures today are going to be up to thirty degrees Centigrade. This is v hot for around ere and I’d like to suggest that your best way of surviving this extreme heat is to not consider doing any manual work. I certainly won’t be.
Really the sensible thing to do is to find a nice bar with a deck looking out between colourful flowery bushes (pick your own brand) onto an azure bay bordered by ivory beaches and palm trees. Stay in a shady spot but drink lots of liquids to keep you hydrated. Watch exotic birds flit in and out of the shrubbery in front of you.
I was thinking particularly of Jambe de Bois on Pigeon Island in St Lucia. John and I came across the place by accident. We had been dropped off at a private beach by the boat from the Hilton in order to do some snorkelling. The snorkelling turned out to be great with hundreds of fish swimming around us near the reef.
After a while we strolled up to the lookout point to see whether any men of war were coming into sight and then continued around the island until we found the bar and decided we could go no further.
This weather reminded me of that place. I would go back were it not for the fact that google says it is temporarily closed (fingers crossed it reopens) and that there are lots of other places to go and see in this little ole world of ours. It isn’t quite as close as Skegvegas or Maybo. It must be said that the only advantages that Skegvegas has over St lucia is the fish and chips but I couldn’t see me wanting British stye fish and chips in da Caribbean, man.
It is currently quite cloudy but in Brian we trust. As I speak I am taking tea on the deck, between the shed and the lake. The lake needs plants which we plan to source from a garden centre called Waterworld or similar on the Wirral. It’s a long way to go and buy a few plants but we are going anyway sometime in the autumn, when the worst of the Lincolnshire summer heat has abated, and will find it convenient to stop by. They also have a caff, natch.
My day is mostly mapped out. A few admin type bits this morning followed by my now customary swim. Did a PB of 51 mins front crawl yesterday. It’s a tradeoff between how long do you want to stay in the pool versus getting a good amount of exercise. I am certainly feeling the benefits especially with the strengthening of the hips although it isn’t going to stop me needing the other one done, planned for 28th October.
Kristian the electrician has moved his slot at ours until this afternoon which is fine for us though he will find it a bit warm. 2nd fix. I was in there this morning opening the windows and am thinking that the steel shelving could go on the left hand side as opposed to the right which has been my initial thinking. I’ll only really know when the floor is down and we move the bench into place. It will all happen next week, if it is the will of Brian.
I will need to build an extension to the bench. I have some scaffold planks in mind that should do the job. When it comes to benches size matters. Pondering putting some metal sheeting in the corner as a place where I can let sparks fly. I’ve got a little used grinding wheel, picked up for next to nothing in Lidl years ago, that rarely gets an outing. Its time has come 🙂 Those kitchen knives won’t know they’re born.
In the meantime the cathedral bells have heralded the hour of nine, I have finished my tea and will now move into the shed to do that admin job.
Ciao amigos.