Form an escape committee
A number of things. First I am 9,000/80,000 words into my new novel. I have to admit that a couple of days ago I almost gave up. It wasn’t Sam and it just wasn’t me. And then, surprisingly as she never normally wants me to share my work, C asked me to read out
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escaping to … Doris!
what I had written. And – so she tells me – she loved it. On the back of that I’ve cracked on, pushing out 2,000 words yesterday (aim is 1,000 words a day). Brilliant.
I have bought the Li-Ion leisure batteries for Doris. It happened much quicker than I thought it would. We have two Sterling gadgets fitted. First is a 2,300 Watt inverter and battery charger. Second is a Sterling battery-to-battery charger, which fast charges the leisure batteries via the alternator. They are good bits of kit and … Sterling do Lithium-Ion batteries. Their 100AH batteries were just over £800 each, which is pretty much industry standard. Anyhow, I dropped them a line and they offered me an on-line discount of 25%. That made 2 x 100 AH batteries come in at £1200. Perfect. And they arrived today. I will fit them tomorrow and let you know how it goes.
Next, and not so successful, the new battery for my bike arrived today. I thought I’d bought the same on as I got for C last year. Hers has almost twice the capacity of the original, works perfectly and came in at £300 (the bikes are almost 10 years old and still going strong). That battery turned up from Germany yesterday … and didn’t work, no matter what I did. A quick email exchange later and it’s now ready for dispatch back to where it came. Hopefully they will sort it.
And we have escaped. After His Johnsonness gave us the all clear to travel to exercise, the three of us popped down to the Severn today and strolled along its banks in wind that was too cold and breezy for a mid-May day. But, hey-ho, it was the first time C and Mary had been in a car for seven weeks.
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almost from a different time
In that regard we have no ambitions to change the way we do our business. Our aim is not to get the disease. Simple as that. And, after I popped into little Tesco this morning to try and send the battery back to Germany (Parcel Force won’t take batteries), I was one of seven shoppers, only two of us were wearing facemasks. Now I know the government have only recommended, not mandated that we wear them shopping, but you would have thought the hit rate would have been higher than that. I’m all for mandating this. Now.
Other than that, life potters along at a slow old pace. I think C is struggling with cabin fever more than Mary and I, but it does seem to be cyclical. We’ll see.
Keep safe everyone.
