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Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind
The title for Ann's latest blog entry. I'm running about twelve hours behind real time at the moment. 29 hours and 12 000 words to go. Two action packed days to write up. What I thought was going to be a standard dinner scene as Ann's mother described her day with Frank turned into an emotional rollercoaster for Ann.
Poor woman! So many things happening to her and she's spending all her spare time typing away at her blog!
Hot day today and even hotter forecast for tomorrow. Sydney is going to be a scorcher, with talk of schools being closed. Tomorrow I've got to take the Ford in for a service. Airconditioning is having trouble keeping up and Kerri has been coming home gasping for cool air.
I'm into my standard summer heat-management routine with the house. As soon as the outside temperature drops below inside, like about eight o'clock when the sun goes down, I open up every window and door. It stays that way until about ten the next morning, some closures for security at night excepting, and then I shut everything up tight, draw curtains on the sunny side of the house. We've got a fair sort of thermal mass in the bricks, so the heat doesn't penetrate during the day, and as long as it can radiate away at night we're OK. Trouble comes when we have a hot night or two and the bricks retain the day's geat and add to it on the morrow. Then we are living in an oven.
At least it's a dry heat here in Canberra. Stir the air around with a fan and it's tolerable.
OK, back into it. I'm confident of finishing on time.
Poor woman! So many things happening to her and she's spending all her spare time typing away at her blog!
Hot day today and even hotter forecast for tomorrow. Sydney is going to be a scorcher, with talk of schools being closed. Tomorrow I've got to take the Ford in for a service. Airconditioning is having trouble keeping up and Kerri has been coming home gasping for cool air.
I'm into my standard summer heat-management routine with the house. As soon as the outside temperature drops below inside, like about eight o'clock when the sun goes down, I open up every window and door. It stays that way until about ten the next morning, some closures for security at night excepting, and then I shut everything up tight, draw curtains on the sunny side of the house. We've got a fair sort of thermal mass in the bricks, so the heat doesn't penetrate during the day, and as long as it can radiate away at night we're OK. Trouble comes when we have a hot night or two and the bricks retain the day's geat and add to it on the morrow. Then we are living in an oven.
At least it's a dry heat here in Canberra. Stir the air around with a fan and it's tolerable.
OK, back into it. I'm confident of finishing on time.