{"id":10950,"date":"2016-04-18T19:37:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T18:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=10950"},"modified":"2016-04-19T10:23:41","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T09:23:41","slug":"job-nearly-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/job-nearly-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Job nearly done"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a lovely day today, better than forecast with solid sunshine and blue sky all day and a high of around 16-17 degrees Celsius. I had to drop into the Mairie at Plazac this morning to find out what I now have to do about submitting my two planning dossiers – the main one for the work I want to do renovating and extending my house and the second one to do with updating my ‘syst\u00e8me d’assainissement’ (septic tank system).<\/p>\n

Somewhat revealingly, the lady in the Mairie didn’t know and had to make a telephone call to find out, so the French planning system is as impenetrable to them as it is to we foreigners, which I found slightly satisfying given as how it’s taken me weeks to find my way through it. It turns out that I have to hold back on submitting my main planning application until I’ve resolved what needs to be done to make my ‘syst\u00e8me conforme’ which was a bit disappointing as it will only lengthen the delay before I can actually go ahead with the work I have planned . ‘C’est la vie’ I suppose.<\/p>\n

After lunch I went over to Malbec to carry out the next stage on ASY’s wingtip paint job, which was to rub down the primer from yesterday and apply a spray coat of finishing. I’ve found it incredibly difficult getting hold of brilliant white spray paint over here – every other colour you can imagine, yellows, blues, reds, purples, but not brilliant white for some reason. I managed to find a single brand some time ago at LeClerc in P\u00e9rigueux and today was the first time I’d used it. And I was very disappointed as it was thin and watery and ran at the first opportunity.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, I achieved a quite good result and here’s how it looked after returning this evening to polish it up a bit.<\/p>\n

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I don’t know what resin(s) are in the paint, but even after several hours, it still hadn’t hardened and although I stopped before any damage was done, the paint had become even browner at the end than when I first sprayed it. And it wasn’t actually what you’d call brilliant white then, but I’ll have to see how it looks tomorrow before deciding what I’ll do next.<\/p>\n

Ideally, if tomorrow is anything like today, especially in the evening, I’d really like to get a flight in. It should be and although the runway was still soft in parts today, it should be OK to use tomorrow in this weather, especially if I leave it until later on. It could do with a mow, though, just as all the grass around my house now could too. But it’s all about priorities, isn’t it \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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