they don’t hold back. 6 stages, 18 km and a whopping 1000 m elevation gain, matched by an equal, if somewhat more rapid, elevation loss, thanks to said 6 downhill stages. that makes for an exhausting morning. here is something i overheard while queueing up for stage 3 (called red wine, for reasons that are…
we are now virtually plugged into the sun – in more than one way! ok, maybe not entirely at this point in time. it has taken three days and three steps to get to this point: day one was about placing the panels on the roof, and feeding the cable connections into the shed. the…
thirteen. it has taken thirteen posts! but there it is: the beginnings of a power plant. a heroic effort over the weekend (with a little help from me) saw the roof finally go on the shed, which was of course the most important condition to getting the panels up. as scheduled – or actually: re-scheduled…
the roof is on! and just in time, too, the solar people will start on monday and – if everything goes to plan – finish the following day. the somewhat unexpected if very welcome progress today was due to the favourable weather, with no wind, only a few drops of rain and overcast skies making…
i’ve had the nomad for a few years now (almost five) and it did have a bit of a life before i became its custodian. no wonder then that a few of the parts are now at the end of their useful life. time for new parts: i needed a new saddle and a new…
we have reached the milestone of ‘peak wall’, meaning 5.5 out of a maximum of 5.5. possible walls have now been constructed. to paraphrase our prime minister (who i believe holds the world record for asking the greatest number of unimaginative and unintelligent rhetorical questions during a single election campaign): how good are walls! well,…
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i’m starting to question my choice of title for this series of posts; it really doesn’t feel like progress towards an actual structure, at least not in the sense that something purposeful is achieved in a given time frame through a deliberate and sustained effort. i mean we’re now at post 10 – and at…
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