Slept like a log. Yesterday was a long day preceded by a long night after which I had also slept deeply induced by a 1am finish and plenty of hydrating beer (well…).
It started with me ‘n’ THG packing up campervan Betty and setting off separately home, THG in the Silver Bullet and me in Betty. Betty, unfortunately, got me as far as the edge of the field where I had to stop and open the gate. After that Betty threw a strop and refused to start. We pushed her around the corner out of the way and even bump starting didn’t work.
Heventually I called the AA (11:40) who, being too busy to attend themselves, subbed it to a garage in Boston. The friendly mechanic rocked up at around quarter to one and didn’t take long to diagnose a broken coil. These things happen in 55 year old vans and you can’t really tell in advance it’s going to happen. The mechanic said it would have to be a separate recovery truck to take me home which didn’t arrive (from Horncastle) until twenty five past five. The guy wasn’t due on shift until six so I was lucky he started early. He was never going to get there for 16:25 which is when the AA said he’d arrive.
Home by six fifteen, emptied the van of the bits that needed to go in the fridge and any particular valuables and went straight to meet THG for a jazz gig in the cathedral (Portrait in Evans – Noa Levy, Alan Barnes and the Paul Edis Trio). It being the last gig on the last day of the Lincoln Jazz festival the Chapter House was by no means full but we did enjoy the performance. Afterwards went for a v pleasant pint (of West Coast IPA) in The Organ Grinder and thence home.
You have to put up with a long delayed recovery process on busy hot summer days and the AA did get us home but their communications left a lot to be desired. There is no easy way to get an update on progress. I had to call the recovery truck people after the eta of 16:25 had come and gone to find out that was never achievable anyway.
Today the temperature has dropped to a far more bearable 23 degrees and we now have to figure out how to go about watering the garden as Anglia Water imposed a hosepipe ban over the weekend. Gonna be lots of walking back and forth with the watering can.
Tharrldofornow. Lotsalurve, Tref.
PS water level in the lake dropped significantly over the weekend whilst we were away.