The cheerful engineer turned up at 9 am ( I thought today was Monday so forgot he was coming)
I was still in my dinosaur nightware. He was here for three hours photographing and drilling , followed by the Welsh, he said his 6 year old son liked dinosaurs but mentioned it without irony, which I was grateful for.
I hope the solar panels will be worth it. As he was leaving we heard a crackling in the electrical circuit and he chirped up better get that sorted quicksticks!
I turned off the power
And so the emergency team is on its way!
Don’t they know I m supposed to be resting?
Trendy Carol collected the dogs and Mandy and John from next door made tea and provided psychological support
I’ve forgotton to change my T shirt in the hurry to clean the cat litter, which as fate would expect, was suddenly overflowing with excrement
The cottage smells like a dung heap.
The electricity board had texted to say they will be 20 minutes away
Shit they’re here
Sorry, but I'm laughing, and just glad not to be the only one caught napping . . . or not long woken up!
ReplyDeleteGawd he was in every room and the attic ,
DeleteI suppose it COULD have been a Barney T-shirt which is maybe worse. Hope you have power without crackles. Or you might as well be walkin’ on the sun. (And now I have to watch that video.)
ReplyDeleteI’ve just bought three dinosaur t shirts
DeleteWtf
Oh, please show the new shirts to us when they arrive! Pretty please?!
DeleteHugs!
That looks much more respectable than my sleepwear!!!
ReplyDeleteYou didn’t see the bottoms , grey sweat pants I looked like a giant toddler
Deletelol john
DeleteAt least it didn't have gravy stains! I hope you're all sorted now and can get back to resting. xx
ReplyDeleteI looked at the front of the t shirt, soup stains from teatime ! ðĨēð
DeleteAh, as Robbie said long ago, "The best laid plan 'o mice and men ..." so went your usual schedule of getting dressed for the day! Ta for the laugh again this morning, John.
ReplyDeleteWe too had a son who was nuts about dinosaurs but these years later he's 45 and designs tiny implants to go in bone joints. As he says, it's still bones!
Hope the solar panels are worth it.
Hugs!
Luckily I was in sweat pants so looked like a very old toddler
DeleteWhen my husband was near the end, he didn’t have the energy to get dressed so he would have me take him to the hospital in his Star Trek pajamas. He always got clever comments from the doctors. Everybody likes dinos don’t they? Hope you get your solar panels sorted so they are safe. We had them on our boat and they did a good job. Gigi
ReplyDeleteWell it’s only the assessment stage fingers crossed
DeleteSadly i've heard nothing but regrets from people that have gotten solar... i hope your experience is better... Hugs! deb
ReplyDeleteðððĪŠðĨēð
DeleteGood luck with the solar. You are looking fit and trim John!
ReplyDeleteI’m a work in progress but the weight is still disappearing lol
DeleteOur solar is fabulous, so hopefully yours will be too. We've got a battery as well, and are now largely off-grid between April and October each year. Since we've had the system there's been a couple of major power cuts that haven't affected us at all.
ReplyDeleteThat’s reassuring especially as my mortgage has increased
DeleteYes but how are *you*? Have you regained and=y strength in your weakened arm? Chores must be so hard for you.
ReplyDeleteAre the solar panels installed and working, or this was preliminary?
No my arm remains a tad weak
DeleteAnd the solar panels are a work in progress, this is only the assessment stage for them and a heat pump
John, dinosaurs are always in style. The cats didn’t want the workmen to feel too comfortable in their house. I hope you can take a delightful nap when things get back to normal. Carol in Atlanta
ReplyDeleteThe emergency repair guy tinkered for twenty minutes , ate the only biscuits in the house and had a cup of tea and all power is now safe
DeleteWell he deserved the biscuits for that!
DeleteI wondering the same as Lizzy D. - how is your arm?
ReplyDeleteNo change really, I’m going back to the GP next week,no sign of X-rays as yet
DeleteMRI?
DeleteIt’s been requested
DeleteThe dinosaurs seemed to get along fine without solar panels for approximately 165 million years.
ReplyDeleteHave I bitten off too much YP
DeleteIt's brave of you to take this leap.
DeleteI love cats and hate litter boxes.
ReplyDeleteHope you get some rest.
I didn’t , but I am now, Mandy brought me around some flowers which was sweet of her
DeleteThat's a whole lot to be going on at once.
ReplyDeleteToo much drama
DeleteJesus John, have a fucking rest why don’t you?
ReplyDeleteLee
I’m trying
DeleteLee is right....
ReplyDeleteMy brother has solar panels, heat exchange unit and a house battery...all working well and no regrets..you should be fine, never mind the naysayers xx
She’s emailed me a two pager telling me off
DeleteYou've got a lot going on and not lots of rest. Oh well!
ReplyDeleteThe solar panels and heat pump will be great.
Hope the electrical work went well. How can you have so much to do in such a small cottage?
ReplyDeleteWe have solar, haven’t paid a bill for 3 quarters and the winter bill won’t be like days of old. It is a wise move John.
ReplyDeleteGlad the emergency electricity guy was there so quickly, as someone said that's well worth a biscuit or three. Our climate and customs around heating houses here (east coast US) is very different than yours but everyone I know with supplemental solar and heat pumps raves about it.
ReplyDeleteCeci
Everybody loves dinosaurs! You are smart to get solar panels. Hopefully they will pay for themselves!
ReplyDeleteGosh, you've had a lot of irons in the fire John! No wonder Lee gave you a rocket! (Go Lee!! The rest of us just worry about you :-) ) Two of our close friends have solar, and it's made an enormous difference to their power bills. Unfortunately we won't be in this house long enough to make it economical to put them in.
ReplyDeleteYou'll get on great with the solar panels John, don't let anyone worry you. We had 45 on the roof of our workshop/garage space at the Welsh house, with never a problem.
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