{"id":24447,"date":"2026-06-24T11:12:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=24447"},"modified":"2026-06-24T11:17:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:17:53","slug":"work-goes-on-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/work-goes-on-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Work goes on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the temperature &#8211; 42 degrees forecast again for today and for several more to come and even after that it&#8217;s forecast to not fall to much below 40 degrees. So working outside on the excavator is a no-go and I&#8217;ve more or less given up on doing much more work on my garden tool store\/workshop until the autumn. And I can&#8217;t see me installing my swimming pool and doing the work I have planned for my terrace until next year. But there&#8217;s nothing I can do to control the weather.<\/p>\n<p>But that doesn&#8217;t mean I can stop work altogether. It&#8217;s cool enough in the early morning and evening to get things done. I got Isward going yesterday evening on cutting the grass at the back and restarted him mowing again this morning at not long after 6.00 am. As I type this he&#8217;s just about finishing off. I&#8217;ve also been pressing on with painting my shutters. In a day I can give two pairs two coats of undercoat per side followed by two top coats the next day.<\/p>\n<p>Shown below are the second pair after their first top coat on their fronts (their backs were top coated yesterday). I&#8217;ve just got two more pairs of small shutters to do (for the kitchen and bathroom) and then I&#8217;ll be onto the large pairs for the living room doors. If I can&#8217;t get much more work done outside in my garden at least it will be nice seeing the shutters back up in colour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/24jun26_01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/24jun26_01_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/24jun26_02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/24jun26_02_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/24jun26_03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/micro-trike.co.uk\/images\/24jun26_03_s.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the temperature &#8211; 42 degrees forecast again for today and for several more to come and even after that it&#8217;s forecast to not fall to much below 40 degrees. So working outside on the excavator is a no-go and I&#8217;ve more or less given up on doing much more work on my garden tool &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/work-goes-on-2\/\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/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-24447","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\/24447","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=24447"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24454,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24447\/revisions\/24454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}