Not much doing

Just about everything I have to do means working outside and quite honestly, with temperatures back in the low-30s Celsius, it’s just too hot for outdoor physical work. Which means that starting on digging out for and shuttering the concrete base of my new tool store will have to wait for a few days yet. We’re expecting to get back into the mid-20s from about Tuesday of the coming week, which will be much more bearable.

The other thing is that as soon as you work up a bit of a sweat, you’re plagued by attacks from multiple stinging and biting insects. I think that these have been the biggest downside for me of living here in the Dordogne and they came as a total surprise after moving here. To give you an idea – after spending a couple of hours riding up and down the runway at Galinat cutting the grass on Thursday wearing shorts, my legs were covered in bites between knees and ankles to the extent that I’ve even had to get up several times during the nights to apply more soothing cream in order to get back to sleep. And even today, three days later, I’m still being plagued by several large red itchy bumps on both legs.

Mind you, I’ve mentioned several times how even while I’ve been removing 56NE’s covers and getting it ready to fly in the warm, sunny weather I’ve had to be constantly swatting away stinging and biting flies and insects, so it should have come as no surprise that the same would happen, but many times worse, as soon as I began driving the mower up and down and stirring the grass up.

I also need to get across to Galinat to adjust 56NE’s brake cables now that the new ones that I fitted a few weeks ago have bedded in. However, that would simply be inviting yet more stings and bites in these temperatures, so that’s a job that can also wait until next week when it’s a bit cooler. But nothing to stop me getting the two builders I’ve got lined up so far to come in and look at the work I’ve got planned on my house. In fact, that for me will be the highlight of the coming week 🙂