Friday… Il pleut
Sep 18th 2009PeterGetting My Life Back!
And it is pleuting as I type, in fact this afternoon we have had a little lightning and quite a lot of thunder! However yesterday, although starting off a little overcast soon brightened up into a glorious warm afternoon, I started off mowing the lawn on the ‘big boys toy’ and while I was completing that the sun came out, 
the skies cleared and the pool, now an inviting 26C was used in between sessions of topping up the sun tan, refilling the wine glass and eating a few nibbles on the patio – absolutely idyllic!
We finished the afternoon off with dinner out on the patio until the temperature dropped just before sunset, when we retired indoors in front of the woodburner. Just what was required! 
However the forecast for tomorrow and the next couple of days are not so good with mixed cloud and rain, so I think it is probably time to shut down the pool heating as I expect we will be out and about rather than sitting in the garden.
I have added a couple of photos from the Domme visit on Wednesday.
Onwards and upwards!
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Richard on 18 Sep 2009 at 11:31 pm #
Is the pool heating solar or heat pump? Not the wood burner I expect.
Enjoy the grub and wine as it may be quite cold when you get back 🙁
Tomorrow is the Men’s Breakfast and the afternoon may be at Hastings for the Seafood and Wine Festival, not quite the same but could be good fun all the same.
Hick
Peter on 19 Sep 2009 at 5:54 pm #
It’s a heat pump (it would take a lot of trees on the woodburner!) If you have a look at the link under “Other blogs” you can see details of the “work in progress”!
Gillian on 20 Sep 2009 at 6:44 pm #
I’m sure if you have enough glasses of vino you won’t feel the cold 😉
have a good break
gillian
Richard on 22 Sep 2009 at 7:47 am #
Hello (international greeting now 🙂
Peter, thinking about it the pool is heated by nuclear energy…………….. France mainly uses nuclear power and the heat source for the pump is the air which is heated indirectly by the Sun.
So a mixture of fusion and fission.
That should mean a low carbon foot print whereas my neighbour’s unit (a very large unit which I suppose is necessary here) keeps the pool at about 26/28 so must be using lots of carbon as most of our power comes from coal and gas. They have got some really nice underwater lights but it is usually only my younger daughter that uses it after dark. Perhaps I should then no one could witness my rather splashy crawl and breathless breast stroke.
Either way enjoy it whilst you can and eat lots and lots to keep your weight gain on target.
Richard
Richard on 24 Sep 2009 at 12:43 pm #
le Soleil brille ainsi vous pourriez être restés à la maison
What a turn up wall to wall sunshine and no end forecast.
Enjoy the steamer………….oh I forgot you are travelling hi-tech
Richard