{"id":21910,"date":"2023-08-21T14:19:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T12:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=21910"},"modified":"2023-08-21T14:19:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T12:19:22","slug":"ready-to-go-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/ready-to-go-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Ready to go again"},"content":{"rendered":"

I now understand entirely why the whole of France goes on holiday in August. It’s just too hot to work, unless you’re in a fully air-conditioned building that is. We’ve had temperatures consistently over 35 degrees Celsius for the past several days and it’s become very hot inside the house. With all of the living room and corridor windows and doors being sealed and masked up it’s actually become quite stifling in there and just moving around doing light tasks brings you out into a sweat.<\/p>\n

And to make it worse, while I was cleaning up after the disaster the other day, I had to go into the fringe of the trees near the house in order to remove paint from tools etc using the hosepipe. As soon as I did I was descended upon by a swarm of biting insects all persistent in their intent to eat me. The same problem is now becoming almost unbearable down near the caravan.<\/p>\n

I think that it’s been superb breeding weather for mosquitoes and in the morning and early evening especially, I’m being plagued by Tiger mosquitoes. These are quite small with black and white striped legs and bodies. If you feel and see one biting you, you can often slap it and kill it. But usually blood (yours) then smears your arm or leg meaning it was too late and soon you come up in a large, itchy welt.<\/p>\n

From what I read they are prolific breeders in any water that’s around – puddles, buckets, watering cans etc, even just small amounts. It also appears almost impossible to get rid of them once they’ve moved onto your patch, which is not very encouraging to say the least, and it’s another reason why I’m desperate to get out of the caravan.<\/p>\n

Every day, by mid-afternoon, the caravan has become sweltering inside and it stays that way for almost the whole night even when it has cooled down outside. We’ve got temperatures in the 40s through to Thursday this week after which it is forecast to cool down so I have no choice but to grin and bear it for a few more days yet.<\/p>\n

I went to bed quite early last night, slept badly and woke early so decided to make an early start. I was in the house by 8.00 am and the first thing I did was replace the area of masking film on the floor that I had to remove when the pipe of the high pressure paint sprayer burst.<\/p>\n

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Having done that I went around the walls and ceiling with a fine tooth comb and found areas of paint splashes that I’d originally missed when the disaster first happened. I then rubbed them all down with a new sheet of sandpaper so they’re now ready for painting again when the new high pressure tube arrives tomorrow.<\/p>\n

It made quite a lot more dust and I picked up as much as I could with the dustpan and brush but would like to remove even more if I can. I’m expecting a new dust\/liquid vacuum cleaner to arrive tomorrow so before I start painting again I’m going to run all round with that.<\/p>\n

I might even quickly give all of the walls (and ceiling if necessary) another rub down as many areas have a feel like sandpaper which I can only think has come from dust blowing up into the spray during painting. But that will have to wait until early tomorrow morning when it’s cooler as it’s much, much too hot to do it now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I now understand entirely why the whole of France goes on holiday in August. It’s just too hot to work, unless you’re in a fully air-conditioned building that is. We’ve had temperatures consistently over 35 degrees Celsius for the past several days and it’s become very hot inside the house. With all of the living … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21910"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21919,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21910\/revisions\/21919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}